James Yate Johnson

James Yate Johnson (1820, Kendal, Cumbria – 2 February 1900, Funchal) was an English naturalist.

Johnson, who lived in Madeira from around 1851, studied marine fish, crustacea, sea anemones and sponges and terrestrial spiders, flowering plants and mosses. He collected specimens for other naturalists; for instance, George Busk, who in 1859 wrote "Zoophytology: On some Madeiran Polyzoa." Collected by J. Yates Johnson, Esq. in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, vol. 7, pp. 65–67.

Works

Partial list

• 1863 Descriptions of five new species of fishes obtained at Madeira. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863 (33): 36-46, pl. VII
• 1866. Description of Trachichthys darwini, a new species of berycoid fish from Madeira. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. : 311-315.
• 1867. Description of a new genus and a new species of macrurous decapod crustaceans, belonging to the Penaeidae, discovered at Madeira. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1867, pp. 895–901. – describes the genus Funchalia
• 1880.  "Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands, The". Encyclopædia Britannica 11 (9th ed.). 1880.
• 1899. Notes on some Sponges belonging to the Clionidae obtained at Madeira. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society 1899:461-463, pl.

References

• Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism