Sidney Irving Smith

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Sidney Irving Smith (born February 18, 1843 in Norway, Maine; died May 17, 1926) was an American zoologist. Sidney Smith was the son of Elliot Smith and Lavinia Barton. His brother in law was Addison Emery Verrill. In his youth, he became expert on the fauna around his home town, and an expert at making collections, particularly of insects. He studied at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, and received his Ph.D. in 1867. He stayed on at Yale, initially as an assistant, but, from 1876, as the first professor of comparative anatomy, a post he retained until his retirement in 1906. He married Eugenia P. Barber on June 29, 1882. Even as professor emeritus, Smith remained at Yale.

Having begun as an entomologist (being State Entomologist in 1872 and 1873), Smith changed relatively early in his career to the study of crustaceans, probably because of his work with the United States Fish Commission. He participated in many field excursions, sometimes in collaboration with Verrill or with Louis Agassiz. Smith was in charge of the dredging of Lake Superior carried out by the United States Lake Survey in 1871, and the dredging in the region of St. George's Banks in 1872 carried out by the United States Coast Survey.

In 1884, Smith was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In a career that was eventually troubled by health problems, Smith produced more than 70 original papers. His collections are now housed in the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale and at the National Museum of Natural History.

[edit] Taxa named by Sidney Irving Smith

Acanthephyra brevirostris S. I. Smith, 1885 Admete nodosa Verrill and Smith, 1885 Ampithoe longimana S. I. Smith, 1873 Ampithoe valida S. I. Smith, 1873 Arctus americanus S. I. Smith, 1869 Argulus laticauda S. I. Smith, 1873 Argulus latus S. I. Smith, 1873 Argulus megalops S. I. Smith, 1873 Benthonectes filipes S. I. Smith, 1885 Benthonectes S. I. Smith, 1885 Beringius brychius (Verrill and Smith, 1885) Byblis serrata S. I. Smith, 1873 Bythocaris gracilis S. I. Smith, 1885 Bythocaris nana S. I. Smith, 1885 Callinectes danae S. I. Smith, 1869 Colletes perforator Smith, 1869 Cymadusa compta (S. I. Smith, 1873) Dyspanopeus sayi (S. I. Smith, 1869) Elasmopus laevis S. I. Smith, 1873 Elasmopus levis (S. I. Smith, 1873) Ephyrina benedicti S. I. Smith, 1885 Ephyrina S. I. Smith, 1885 Eucratopsis Smith, 1869 Eunephrops bairdii S. I. Smith, 1885 Eunephrops S. I. Smith, 1885 Eurypanopeus depressus (S. I. Smith, 1869) Evibacus princeps Smith, 1869 Evibacus Smith, 1869 Gammarus annulatus S. I. Smith, 1873 Hadropenaeus modestus (S. I. Smith, 1885) Haliporus modestus (S. I. Smith, 1885) Haliporus robustus (S. I. Smith, 1885) Heterogenys microphthalma (S. I. Smith, 1885) Heteromysis formosa S. I. Smith, 1873 Heteromysis S. I. Smith, 1873

Hippolyte zostericola (S. I. Smith, 1873) Hyalopecten undatus (A. E. Verrill and S. Smith, 1885) Hymenopenaeus modestus S. I. Smith, 1885 Hymenopenaeus robustus S. I. Smith, 1885 Melita nitida S. I. Smith, 1873 Metapenaeopsis goodei (S. I. Smith, 1885) Metapenaeus goodei (S. I. Smith, 1885) Munidopsis crassa S. I. Smith, 1885 Munidopsis similis S. I. Smith, 1885 Mysis stenolepis S. I. Smith, 1873 Neomysis americana (S. I. Smith, 1873) Neopanope sayi (S. I. Smith, 1869) Neopanope texana sayi (S. I. Smith, 1869) Palaemon ensiculus Smith, 1869 Panopeus hartii S. I. Smith, 1869 Panopeus harttii S. I. Smith, 1869 Panopeus obesus S. I. Smith, 1869 Panopeus sayi S. I. Smith, 1869 Panulirus echinatus Smith, 1869 Parapenaeus goodei S. I. Smith, 1885 Parapenaeus megalops Smith, 1885 Parapenaeus S. I. Smith, 1885 Penaeopsis goodei (S. I. Smith, 1885) Penaeopsis megalops (Smith, 1885) Pleoticus robustus (S. I. Smith, 1885) Pontonia margarita Smith, 1869 Rimapenaeus similis (S. I. Smith, 1885) Scyllarus americanus (S. I. Smith, 1869) Scyphacella arenicola S. I. Smith, 1873 Scyphacella S. I. Smith, 1873 Thyasira grandis Verrill and Smith, 1885 Thyasira plicata Verrill and Smith, 1885 Trachypenaeus similis (S. I. Smith, 1885) Xiphopenaeus hartii Smith, 1869 Xiphopenaeus Smith, 1869

[edit] Taxa named after Sidney Irving Smith

• Lembos smithi Holmes, 1905
• Metapenaeopsis smithi (Schmitt, 1924)
• Oxyurostylis smithi Calman, 1912
• Pandarus smithi Rathbun, 1886
• Siphonoecetes smithianus Rathbun, 1908
• and possibly Gonodactylus smithii Pocock, 1893

[edit] References

• Gilberto Rodriguez (1993): From Oviedo to Rathbun: The development of brachyuran crab taxonomy in the Neotropics (1535-1937). In: F. Truesdale (Ed.): History of Carcinology, Balkema (Rotterdam), Crustacean Issues, 8 : 41-73.