Glen Milton Storr

Dr Glen Milton Storr (22 December 1921 – 26 June 1990) was an Australian ornithologist and herpetologist. He joined the Western Australian Museum in 1962 and became Curator of Ornithology and Herpetology in 1965. He was a member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU), and served as Secretary of the Western Australian Branch of the RAOU in 1954.

Storr produced his postgraduate research on kangaroos. His tenure as curator at the WA museum ended in 1986.[1]

Legacy

Storr was one of the most prolific alpha-taxonomists in herpetology, i.e. he described 232 species and subspecies of reptiles, which places him in the top-10 of all-time world-wide.[2] He is commemorated in the scientific names of five species of reptiles: Carlia storri, Ctenotus storri, Lerista storri, Morethia storri, and Varanus storri.[3]

References
  1. "Storr, Glen Milton - Biographical entry - Encyclopedia of Australian Science". www.eoas.info. The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research. 1993.
  2. Uetz, Peter; Stylianou, Alexandrea (24 January 2018). "The original descriptions of reptiles and their subspecies". Zootaxa. 4375 (2): 257–264. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4375.2.5. ISSN 1175-5334.
  3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii = 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Storr", p. 256).
  • Davies, S.J.J.F. (1991). "Obituary. Glen Milton Storr". Emu. 91: 66. doi:10.1071/mu9910066.
  • Smith, Laurie A. (1991). "Glen Milton Storr 1921–1990". Copeia. 1991 (2): 550–552. JSTOR 1446616.


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