Benjamin Shreve

{{Short description|American herpetologist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Benjamin Shreve | image =  | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = 1908 | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death year and age|1985|1908}} | death_place = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = | workplaces = | alma_mater = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = [[Herpetology]] | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = Shreve | awards = | signature =  | signature_alt = | footnotes = | spouse = }} '''Benjamin Shreve''' (1908–1985) was an [[American people|American]] amateur [[herpetologist]]. He was from a wealthy Boston family of jewellers (partners and managers of [[Shreve, Crump & Low]]) and worked at the [[Museum of Comparative Zoology|Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology]] as a volunteer.<ref name="JHUP - 2011 - The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles - Shreve">{{cite book|last1 = Beolens | first1 = Bo | last2 = Watkins | first2 = Michael | last3 = Grayson | first3 = Michael. |title=The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles|publisher=Baltimore: [[Johns Hopkins University Press]]|date=2011|pages=243|isbn=978-1-4214-0135-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0F758vNQ0UUC&q=%22Benjamin+Shreve%22+Harvard+herpetologist&pg=PT765}}</ref><ref name="The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians - page 197 - Benjamin Shreve">{{cite book|last1 = Beolens | first1 = Bo | last2 = Watkins | first2 = Michael | last3 = Grayson | first3 = Michael. |title=The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians|publisher=Exeter, England: Pelagic Publishing Ltd|date=2013|pages=197|isbn=978-1-907807-44-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QJY3BAAAQBAJ&q=%22Benjamin+Shreve%22+Harvard+herpetologist&pg=PA197}}</ref> He was trained by [[Arthur Loveridge]] to deal with materials from elsewhere than [[Africa]]. Shreve described many species from the [[West Indies]] together with [[Thomas Barbour]]. In these papers, Shreve is said to have done the "spadework" while Barbour wrote "florid" introductions.<ref>{{Cite book| last = Crother| first = Brian I.| title = Caribbean Amphibians and Reptiles| year = 1999 | publisher = Waltham, Massachusetts: Academic Press. 493 pp|isbn=978-0121979553}}</ref>

==Species named in honor of Benjamin Shreve== [[Reptile]]s [[Specific name (zoology)|named]] in honor of Shreve include:<ref name="JHUP - 2011 - The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles - Shreve"/> *''[[Dipsadoboa shrevei]]'' – Shreve's (nocturnal) tree snake *''[[Oreosaurus shrevei]]'' – Shreve's lightbulb lizard (''Riama shrevei'' is a synonym) *''[[Anolis shrevei]]'' – Shreve's anole *''[[Sphaerodactylus shrevei]]'' – Shreve's least gecko

[[Amphibian]]s named in honor of Shreve are:<ref name="The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians - page 197 - Benjamin Shreve"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Hylidae/Hylinae/Osteopilus/Osteopilus-wilderi|title=''Osteopilus wilderi'' (Dunn, 1925)|author=Frost, Darrel R.|authorlink=Darrel Frost|year=2014|work=Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0|publisher=American Museum of Natural History|accessdate=24 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Anura/Dendrobatidae/Dendrobatinae/Andinobates/Andinobates-minutus|title=''Andinobates minutus'' (Shreve, 1935)|author=Frost, Darrel R.|year=2014|work=Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0|publisher=American Museum of Natural History|accessdate=13 September 2014}}</ref> *''Dendrobates shrevei'' (now a synonym of ''[[Andinobates minutus]]'') – bluebelly poison frog *''Hyla shrevei'' (now a synonym of ''[[Osteopilus wilderi]]'') – green bromeliad frog or Wilder's treefrog *''[[Anomaloglossus shrevei]]'' – Shreve's rocket frog *''[[Pristimantis shrevei]]''

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