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Humphry Greenwood

Humphry Greenwood

English ichthyologist

Peter Humphry Greenwood FRS FIBiol (21 April 1927 – 3 March 1995) was an English ichthyologist. Humphry married fellow student Marjorie George (1924 – 2006) in 1950. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1985.[1][2] He was known for his work on the species flocks of cichlids in the African Great Lakes, and for studies of the phylogeny and systematics of teleosts.[3]

P. Humphry Greenwood

Tribute

The cichlid fish Diplotaxodon greenwoodi [4] is named for him. Also Brachyaetoides greenwoodi Bonde, 2008 is named for him. As is Enteromius greenwoodi (Poll 1967).

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References

  1. [1]
    "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/58209. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. [2]
    Howes, Gordon (11 March 1995). "OBITUARIES: Humphry Greenwood – People, News – The Independent". London. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
  3. [3]
    Patterson, C. (1997). "Peter Humphry Greenwood. 21 April 1927--3 March 1995: Elected F.R.S. 1985". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 43: 195. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1997.0011. JSTOR 770332.
  4. [4]
    Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 July 2018). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily PSEUDOCRENILABRINAE (a-g)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 5 December 2018.


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