John W. Randall

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John W. Randall (1813 – 1892) was an American doctor and carcinologist. He became a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia in 1837, to whom he presented a single communication, in 1840.

He described 36 new species of decapods, reported by Thomas Nuttall and John Kirk Townsend from Hawaii and the Pacific coast of the United States.