Fenner A. Chace, Jr.

Fenner Albert Chace, Jr. (October 5, 1908 – May 30, 2004) was an American carcinologist. He was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, and studied at Harvard University, before becoming a curator at that university's Museum of Comparative Zoology.[1] In his own words, he "served as a civilian oceanographer and commissioned officer (first lieutenant to major) in the Army Air Corps (subsequently transferred to the Oceanographic Unit of the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office in Suitland, Md" during the Second World War, and afterwards, he succeeded Waldo L. Schmitt at the United States National Museum.[2] He worked at the National Museum until his retirement in 1978, and then he continued as Zoologist Emeritus. He was "one of the most influential carcinologists of the 20th century", and named 200 taxa in the Decapoda and Stomatopoda, most of them shrimp.[2]

Taxa

Taxa named by Fenner A. Chace include:

Chace is commemorated in a number of names of taxa:[3]

  • Alpheus fenneri A. J. Bruce, 1994
  • Archaeatya chacei Villalobos, 1960
  • Chacella A. J. Bruce, 1986
  • Chaceon fenneri (Manning & Holthuis, 1984)
  • Chorocaris chacei (Williams & Rona, 1986)
  • Crassispira chacei Hertlein & Strong, 1951
  • Dicranodromia chacei Guinot, 1995
  • Fennera chacei Holthuis, 1951
  • Fenneralpheus chacei Felder & Manning, 1986
  • Fenneropenaeus Perez Farfante, 1969
  • Hymenopenaeus chacei Crosnier & Forest, 1969
  • Ifanella chacei Vervoort, 1964
  • Ischnochiton chaceorum P. Kaas & R. A. Van Belle, 1990
  • Michelopagurus chacei McLaughlin, 1997
  • Pasiphaea chacei Yaldwyn, 1962
  • Plesionika chacei Crosnier, 1986
  • Pylocheles chacei Forest, 1987
  • Scyllarus chacei Holthuis, 1960
  • Vetericaris chaceorum Kensley & Williams, 1986

The shrimp genus Janicea (currently in the family Barbouriidae)[4] is named after Chace's wife, Janice.[5]

References

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