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
[edit]- Beolens, B. & Watkins, M. 2003. Whose Bird?: Men and women commemorated in the common names of birds. Eastbourne, United Kingdom: Gardners Books.
- Beolens, B., Watkins, M. & Grayson, M. 2009. The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Beolens, B., Watkins, M. & Grayson, M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Beolens, B., Watkins, M. & Grayson, M. 2013. The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Exeter, England: Pelagic Publishing Ltd.
- Beolens, B., Watkins, M. & Grayson, M. 2014. The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Morrison, David (January 2014). "Review". Systematic Biology.
- ^ a b Velmala, William (July 2015). "A book of names – of birds and people:". Ornis Fennica.
- ^ 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.
- ^ https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/658462
- ^ https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/ah/article/view/1699/1699