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Joseph Richard Slevin

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Joseph Richard Slevin (September 13, 1881 – February 17, 1957) was an American herpetologist and the second curator of herpetology at the California Academy of Sciences, with which he was affiliated for over 50 years. [1]

41 relations: Agave, Author citation (zoology), Baja California Peninsula, California Academy of Sciences, California Digital Library, Clipperton Island, Cocos Island, Española Island, Fernandina Island, Galápagos Islands, Galápagos tortoise, Herpetology, Hypalastoroides, Ivan Murray Johnston, John D. Spreckels, John Van Denburgh, Joseph Conrad Chamberlin, Joseph Nelson Rose, Laurence Monroe Klauber, Megachile slevini, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Rábida Island, Richard M. Bohart, Rollo Beck, Saint Mary's Academy and College, San Benedicto Island, San Francisco, Santa Fe Island, Sauromalus slevini, Slevin's bunchgrass lizard, Slevin's mouse, Socorro Island, St. Ignatius College Preparatory, Stenodactylus slevini, Synonym (taxonomy), Taxon, Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, Trachypachus slevini, Vasco M. Tanner, Western banded gecko, 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Agave

Agave is a genus of monocots native to the hot and arid regions of Mexico and the Southwestern United States.

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Author citation (zoology)

In zoological nomenclature, author citation refers to listing the person (or team) who first makes a scientific name of a taxon available.

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Baja California Peninsula

The Baja California Peninsula (Lower California Peninsula, Península de Baja California) is a peninsula in Northwestern Mexico.

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California Academy of Sciences

The California Academy of Sciences is a research institute and natural history museum in San Francisco, California, that is among the largest museums of natural history in the world, housing over 26 million specimens.

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California Digital Library

The California Digital Library (CDL) was founded by the University of California in 1997 to take advantage of emerging technologies that were transforming the way digital information was being published and accessed.

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Clipperton Island

Clipperton Island (Île de Clipperton or Île de la Passion; Isla de la Pasión) is an uninhabited coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean off the coast of Central America.

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Cocos Island

Cocos Island (Isla del Coco) is an island designated as a National Park off the shore of Costa Rica, that does not allow inhabitants other than Costa Rican Park Rangers.

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Española Island

Española Island (Spanish: Isla Española) is part of the Galápagos Islands.

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Fernandina Island

Fernandina Island (formerly known in English as Narborough Island, after John Narborough) is the third largest, and youngest, island of the Galápagos Islands.

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Galápagos Islands

The Galápagos Islands (official name: Archipiélago de Colón, other Spanish name: Las Islas Galápagos), part of the Republic of Ecuador, are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on either side of the equator in the Pacific Ocean surrounding the centre of the Western Hemisphere, west of continental Ecuador.

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Galápagos tortoise

The Galápagos tortoise complex or Galápagos giant tortoise complex (Chelonoidis nigra and related species) are the largest living species of tortoise.

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Herpetology

Herpetology (from Greek "herpein" meaning "to creep") is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (gymnophiona)) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, turtles, terrapins, tortoises, crocodilians, and the tuataras).

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Hypalastoroides

Hypalastoroides is a neotropical genus of potter wasps with a few nearctic and andean species.

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Ivan Murray Johnston

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John D. Spreckels

John Diedrich Spreckels (August 16, 1853 – June 7, 1926), the son of German-American industrialist Claus Spreckels, founded a transportation and real estate empire in San Diego, California, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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John Van Denburgh

John Van Denburgh (August 23, 1872 – October 24, 1924) was an American herpetologist from California.

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Joseph Conrad Chamberlin

Joseph Conrad Chamberlin (December 23, 1898 – July 17, 1962) was an American arachnologist who studied mainly pseudoscorpions.

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Joseph Nelson Rose

Joseph Nelson Rose (January 11, 1862 – May 4, 1928) was an American botanist.

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Laurence Monroe Klauber

Laurence M. Klauber (December 21, 1883 in San Diego, California – May 8, 1968), was an American herpetologist and the foremost authority on rattlesnakes.

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Megachile slevini

Megachile slevini is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae.

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Nathaniel Lord Britton

Nathaniel Lord Britton (January 15, 1859 – June 25, 1934) was an American botanist and taxonomist who co-founded the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York.

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Rábida Island

Rábida Island, is one of the Galápagos Islands.

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Richard M. Bohart

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Rollo Beck

Rollo Howard Beck (26 August 1870 – 22 November 1950) was an American ornithologist, bird collector for museums, and explorer.

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Saint Mary's Academy and College

Saint Mary's Academy and College is a religious school of the Society of St. Pius X located in St. Marys, in the U.S. state of Kansas, 25 miles (40 km) west of Topeka.

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San Benedicto Island

San Benedicto, formerly Isla de los Innocentes, is an uninhabited island, and third largest island of the Revillagigedo Islands, located in the Pacific ocean.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Santa Fe Island

Santa Fe Island (Spanish: Isla Santa Fe), also called Barrington Island after admiral Samuel Barrington, is a small island of which lies in the centre of the Galápagos archipelago, to the south east of Santa Cruz Island.

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Sauromalus slevini

Sauromalus slevini, also known as the Monserrat chuckwalla, is a species of chuckwalla belonging to the family Iguanidae.

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Slevin's bunchgrass lizard

Slevin's bunchgrass lizard (Sceloporus slevini) is a species of lizard in the subfamily Phrynosomatinae ranging from Southwestern United States to northern Mexico.

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Slevin's mouse

Slevin's mouse (Peromyscus slevini), also known as the Catalina deer mouse, is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.

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Socorro Island

Socorro Island (Isla Socorro) is a small volcanic island in the Revillagigedo Islands, a Mexican possession lying some off the country's western coast at 18°48'N, 110°59'W.

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St. Ignatius College Preparatory

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Stenodactylus slevini

Stenodactylus slevini, or Slevin's short-fingered gecko, is a gecko species in the family Gekkonidae.

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Synonym (taxonomy)

In scientific nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name,''ICN'', "Glossary", entry for "synonym" although the term is used somewhat differently in the zoological code of nomenclature.

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Taxon

In biology, a taxon (plural taxa; back-formation from taxonomy) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

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Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell

Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866–1948) was an American zoologist, born at Norwood, England, and brother of Sydney Cockerell.

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Trachypachus slevini

Trachypachus slevini is a species of false ground beetle in the family Trachypachidae.

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Vasco M. Tanner

Vasco Myron Tanner (October 29, 1892 – April 25, 1989) was an American entomologist from Utah, and professor of zoology at Brigham Young University.

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Western banded gecko

The western banded gecko (Coleonyx variegatus) is a species of gecko found in the southwestern United States (southern California, southwest New Mexico, southern Arizona, Utah, Nevada) and northern Mexico (Sonora, northwest Baja California).

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1906 San Francisco earthquake

The 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18 with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Richard_Slevin

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