Austin B. Williams
U.S. carcinologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Austin Beatty Williams was an American carcinologist, "the acknowledged expert on and leader in studies of the systematics of eastern American decapod crustaceans". Biography Austin B. Williams was born on October 17, 1919, in Plattsburg, Missouri, the eldest of three children to Oliver Perry Williams and Lucy Sell. He was educated at McPherson College and the University of Kansas, gaining his Ph.D. in 1951. He then worked at the University of North Carolina Institute of Fisheries Research, the University of Illinois, before gaining a position in the systematics laboratory of the National Marine Fisheries Service, based at the Smithsonian Institution. He was married and had one son and two grandchildren. He died of cancer at Falls Church, Virginia, on October 27, 1999.
Austin B. Williams's Published Works
Published Works
- Shrimps, Lobsters, and Crabs of the Atlantic Coast of the Eastern United States, Maine to Florida (1984) (839)
- The swimming crabs of the genus Callinectes (Decapoda: Portunidae) (1974) (291)
- Synopsis of biological data on the blue crab, callinectes sapidus Rathbun (1984) (218)
- Two New Caridean Shrimps (Bresiliidae) From a Hydrothermal Field on the Mid-atlantic Ridge (1986) (154)
- THE INFLUENCE OF TEMPERATURE ON OSMOTIC REGULATION IN TWO SPECIES OF ESTUARINE SHRIMPS (PENAEUS) (1960) (99)
- NEW MARINE DECAPOD CRUSTACEANS FROM WATERS INFLUENCED BY HYDROTHERMAL DISCHARGE, BRINE, AND HYDROCARBON SEEPAGE (1988) (94)
- An eastern United States record for the western Indo-Pacific crab, Hemigrapsus sanguineus Crustacea Decapoda Grapsidae (1990) (93)
- Substrates as a Factor in Shrimp Distribution1 (1958) (78)
- Shallow-Water Crabs (1983) (69)
- Reproductive patterns of decapod crustaceans from hydrothermal vents (1985) (65)
- A NEW CRAB FAMILY FROM THE VICINITY OF SUBMARINE THERMAL VENTS ON THE GALAPAGOS RIFT (CRUSTACEA: DECAPODA: BRACHYURA)1 (1980) (65)
- New galatheoidea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) from hydrothermal systems in the West Pacific Ocean : Bismarck Archipelago and Okinawa Trough (1998) (65)
- A New Caridean Shrimp of the Family Bresiliidae From Thermal Vents of the Galapagos Rift (1982) (60)
- Analysis Of Stone Crabs - Menippe mercenaria (Say), Restricted, And A Previously Unrecognized Species Described (Decapoda, Xanthidae) (1986) (55)
- Speciation and distribution of the crayfishes of the Ozark Plateaus and Ouachita provinces (1951) (49)
- A ten-year study of meroplankton in North Carolina estuaries: Annual occurrence of some brachyuran developmental stages (1971) (46)
- A ten-year study of meroplankton in North Carolina estuaries: Assessment of environmental factors and sampling success among bothid flounders and penaeid shrimps (1968) (45)
- A ten-year study of meroplankton in North Carolina estuaries: Amphipods (1972) (45)
- Taphonomy and preservation of burrowing thalassinidean shrimps (2005) (38)
- Mud shrimps, Upogebia, from the eastern Pacific (Thalassinoidea: Upogebiidae) (1986) (37)
- A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF CARIDEAN SHRIMP (CRUSTACEA: DECAPODA: BRESILIIDAE) FROM HYDROTHERMAL VENTS ON LOIHI SEAMOUNT, HAWAII (1995) (35)
- A Ten-year Study of Meroplankton in North Carolina Estuaries: Mysid shrimps (1972) (31)
- Mud shrimps, Upogebiidae, from the western Atlantic (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinoidea) (1993) (31)
- Fossil Crabs From Tepee Buttes, Submarine Seeps of the Late Cretaceous Pierre Shale, South Dakota and Colorado, U.s.a. (2000) (30)
- Trophic strategies and functional morphology of feeding appendages, with emphasis on setae, of Upogebia omissa and Pomatogebia operculata (Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Upogebiidae) (2000) (28)
- New squat lobsters (Galatheidae) from the Pacific Ocean: Mariana Back Arc Basin, East Pacific Rise, and Cascadia Basin (1989) (27)
- A hydrographic atlas of larger North Carolina sounds (1973) (27)
- A ten-year study of meroplankton in North Carolina estuaries: Occurrence of postmetamorphal bivalves (1971) (27)
- Six New Crayfishes of the Genus Orconectes (Decapoda: Astacidae) from Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma (1952) (26)
- A New Genus and Species of Snapping Shrimp (Decapoda, Alpheidae) From the Southeastern United States (1965) (23)
- A ten-year study of meroplankton in North Carolina estuaries: Cycles of occurrence among penaeidean shrimps (1969) (22)
- Revision of the family Latreilliidae Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) (2003) (22)
- Distribution of decapod Crustacea off Northeastern United States based on specimens at the Northeast Fisheries Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts (1977) (22)
- Substrates as a Factor in Shrimp Distribution ’ (1999) (21)
- Notes On Structure and Parasitism of Munida Iris a. Milne Edwards (Decapoda, Galatheidae) From North Carolina, U.S.A (1972) (19)
- Comparison of some genera and species of box crabs (Brachyura: Calappidae) of the southwestern North Atlantic, with description of a new genus and species (1989) (18)
- The first zoeal stage of a hydrothermal vent crab (Decapoda: Brachyura: Bythograeidae) (1984) (18)
- New Records of Brachyuran Decapod Crustaceans From the Continental Shelf Off North Carolina, U.S.A (1968) (17)
- SQUAT LOBSTERS (GALATHEIDAE: MUNIDOPSIS) ASSOCIATED WITH MESH-ENCLOSED WOOD PANELS SUBMERGED IN THE DEEP SEA (1986) (17)
- Assignment of Homarus capensis (Herbst, 1792), the Cape lobster of South Africa, to the new genus Homarinus (Decapoda: Nephropidae) (1995) (17)
- A survey of North Carolina shrimp nursery grounds (1955) (16)
- TWO NEW SPECIES OF MUNIDOPSIS (DECAPODA: ANOMURA: GALATHEIDAE) FROM THE WESTERN ATLANTIC OCEAN (1995) (12)
- Pomatogebia, a new genus of thalassinidean shrimps from western hemisphere tropics (Crustacea : Upogebiidae) (1990) (12)
- New Species of Paralomis (Decapoda, Anomura, Lithodidae) From a Sunken Whale Carcass in the San Clemente Basin Off Southern California (2000) (12)
- An unusually large turtle barnacle (Chelonibia p. patula) on a blue crab from Delaware Bay (1964) (11)
- An Explanation for the Distribution of a North American Crayfish (1954) (9)
- NECROCARCINUSOLSONORUM, NEW SPECIES, A CRAB (DECAPODA: CALAPPIDAE) FROM THE CRETACEOUS CARLILE SHALE (TURONIAN), WESTERN INTERIOR UNITED STATES (1991) (9)
- CHAPTER 6 – Crabs (Arthropoda: Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) (1979) (9)
- Lobsters of the world : an illustrated guide : lobsters of the world in U.S. trade (1988) (8)
- Upogebia synagelas, New Species, A Commensal Mud Shrimp From Sponges In The Western Central Atlantic (Decapoda, Upogebiidae) (1987) (8)
- NOTES ON DECAPOD AND EUPHAUSIID CRUSTACEANS, CONTINENTAL MARGIN, WESTERN ATLANTIC, GEORGES BANK TO WESTERN FLORIDA, USA (1988) (8)
- Chapter 2 – Taxonomy and Evolution (1995) (8)
- A Ten-Year Study of Meroplankton in North (1971) (7)
- Trophic strategies and functional morphology of feeding appendages, with emphasis on setae, of Upogebia omissa and Pomatogebia operculata (2000) (7)
- More Records for Shrimps of the Genus Rimicaris (Decapoda: Caridea: Bresiliidae) from the Mid-atlantic Rift (1987) (6)
- A ten-year study of meroplankton in North Carolina estuaries: Juvenile and adultOgyrides (Caridea: Ogyrididae) (1972) (5)
- WESTERN ATLANTIC SPECIES OF THE CARIDEAN SHRIMP GENUS OGYRIDES (1981) (5)
- Axiopsis eximia, a new thalassinidean shrimp (Crustacea, Decapoda, Axiidae) from the Middle Eocene of South Carolina (1988) (5)
- Distinguishing Juvenile Stages of Jonah and Atlantic Rock Crabs, Cancer Borealis and C. Irroratus (Decapoda: Cancridae) (1992) (5)
- Conjoined twin adult shrimp (Decapoda: Penaeidae) (1988) (4)
- A Note on the Occurrence of the Pink Shrimp Penaeus Duorarum in Louisiana Waters (1956) (4)
- The genus Ogyrides (Crustacea: Caridea) in North Carolina (1955) (3)
- A new species of spider crab from Guam, Rochinia decipiata (Brachyura: Majidae) (1994) (3)
- Indo-Pacific Spiny Lobsters in the U.S. National Museum of Natural History Collected From 1963 To 1981 (Decapoda, Palinuridea) (1988) (2)
- New Decapod Crustacean Records for the Coast of North Carolina (1963) (2)
- Upogebia corallifora, A New Species Of Coral boring Shrimp From The West indies (Decapoda, Upogebiidae) (1989) (2)
- A New Species Of Mud Shrimp, Upogebia Cortesi, From Pacific Costa Rica (2000) (2)
- Integumental organs of unknown function on chelipeds of deep‐sea crabs, genus Hypsophrys (1976) (2)
- Marine flora and fauna of the northeastern United States. Decapoda (1974) (2)
- A New Species of Fish from the Western North Atlantic, Dikellorhynchus tropidolepis, and Relationships of the Genera Dikellorhynchus and Malacanthus (1958) (0)
- A Re-Examination of Ov Alipes Species in the Carolinas (Decapoda, Portunidae) 1) (1962) (0)
- Accession 84-076 Austin B. Williams Papers, circa 1960-1980 (1960) (0)
- NECROCARCINUS OLSONORUM, NEW SPECIES, A CRAB (DECAPODA: CALAPPIDAE) FROM THE CRETACEOUS CARTLI T SHALE (TURONIAN), WESTERN (1991) (0)
- Decapod crustaceans of the Chesapeake Bay (1972) (0)
- Accession 83-007 Austin B. Williams Papers, 1973-1980 (1973) (0)
- Accession 10-123 Austin B. Williams Papers, 1943-1999 (1943) (0)
- Accession 11-041 Austin B. Williams Papers, 1959-1999 (1959) (0)
- Accession 96-053 Austin B. Williams Papers, circa 1984-1994 (1984) (0)
- Book reviews (1984) (0)
- Mud shrimpsc Upogebiac from the eastern Pacific lThalassinoideac Upogebiidaer (1986) (0)
- TWO NEW CARIDEAN SHRIMPS (BRESTTIIIDAE) FROM A HYDROTHERMAL FIELD ON THE (1986) (0)
- Assignment of Homarus capensis , the Cape lobster of South Africa, to the new genus Homarinus (1995) (0)
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