Michael Watkins (zoologist)

Michael Watkins is a British shipbroker and zoologist. He is known for his books about the eponyms of species.

Watkins is co-author of the books Whose Bird?: Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds,[1][2][3] The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals,[1][4] The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles,[1] The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians,[1][5] and The Eponym Dictionary of Birds.

The book Whose Bird? details more than 4,000 people who have been commemorated with common names of birds and was originally conceived as a method of raising money for the Disabled Birders Association.[1][2]

Publications

  • Beolens, B. & Watkins, M. (2003). Whose Bird?: Men and women commemorated in the common names of birds. Eastbourne, United Kingdom: Gardners Books. 400 pp. ISBN 978-0713666472.
  • Beolens, B., Watkins, M. & Grayson, M. (2009). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 592 pp. ISBN 978-0801893049.
  • Beolens, B., Watkins, M. & Grayson, M. (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5.
  • Beolens, B., Watkins, M. & Grayson, M. (2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Exeter, England: Pelagic Publishing Ltd. xiii + 244 pp. ISBN 978-1-907807-41-1.
  • Beolens, B., Watkins, M. & Grayson, M. (2014). The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 624 pp. ISBN 978-1472905734.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Morrison, David A. (2014). "Book Reviews". Systematic Biology. 63 (1): 115–117.
  2. ^ a b Velmala, William (July 2015). "A book of names – of birds and people:". Ornis Fennica.
  3. ^ Sandwith, Margaret (2004). "Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds by Bo Beolens and Michael Watkins". Journal of African Ornithology. 75 (1–2): 78.
  4. ^ https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/658462
  5. ^ https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/ah/article/view/1699/1699
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