Clinton Hart Merriam (December 5, 1855 – March 19, 1942) was an American zoologist, mammalogist, ornithologist, entomologist, ecologist, ethnographer,...
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Clinton Merriam is the name of: Clinton L. Merriam (1824–1900), U.S. Representative from New York Clinton Hart Merriam (1855–1942), son of Clinton L. Merriam...
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scientific interests of her family members, including her older brother Clinton Hart Merriam. Her nature writing and activism started at Smith College in 1882...
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Kodiak bear (category Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam)
mammals. "IUCN Brown Bear subspecies status". Retrieved August 29, 2022. Merriam, C. Hart (1896). "Preliminary Synopsis of the American Bears". Proceedings of...
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Cozumel raccoon (category Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam)
dwarf raccoon, Cozumel Island raccoon, and Cozumel raccoon bear. Clinton Hart Merriam first described the Cozumel raccoon as morphologically distinctive...
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California grizzly bear (category Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam)
Publications from the Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology. Paper 497. Merriam, C. Hart (August 13, 1914), "Description of Thirty apparently New Grizzly and...
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Pygmy rabbit (category Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam)
the species as lower risk. The pygmy rabbit was first described by Clinton Hart Merriam in 1891, as Lepus idahoensis; the type specimen, in winter pelage...
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zoologist Clinton Hart Merriam and the ornithologist Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey. Kofalk, Harriet (1989). No Woman Tenderfoot: Florence Merriam Bailey...
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petroglyphs visited and described by Walter James Hoffman in 1882 and by Clinton Hart Merriam in 1903. One image on the panel has been interpreted by cryptozoologists...
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The C. Hart Merriam Award is given annually by the American Society of Mammalogists for "outstanding research in mammalogy". The Merriam Award was established...
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Long-tailed vole (category Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam)
South Dakota, on July 19, 1887. The description was published by C. Hart Merriam in The American Naturalist the following year. The original scientific...
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Sitka deer (category Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam)
the deer to travel through these areas when the snow is so deep. Harry Merriam, John Schoen and Dave Hardy "Sitka Black-tailed Deer". Alaska Dept of Fish...
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Kangaroo mouse (category Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam)
Subfamily: Dipodomyinae Genus: Microdipodops Merriam, 1891 Type species Microdipodops megacephalus Merriam, 1891 Species M. megacephalus M. pallidus...
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Merriam (1877–1961), American insurance businessman and politician Clinton Hart Merriam (1855–1942), American zoologist and anthropologist Clinton Levi...
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Desert bighorn sheep (category Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam)
Subfamily: Caprinae Tribe: Caprini Genus: Ovis Species: O. canadensis Subspecies: O. c. nelsoni Trinomial name Ovis canadensis nelsoni Merriam, 1897...
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Oryzomys nelsoni (category Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam)
Agriculture was one of the first scientific exploration of the islands. Clinton Hart Merriam identified the mammals they obtained, including four specimens of...
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Western spotted skunk (category Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam)
years in captivity. The western spotted skunk was first described by Clinton Hart Merriam in 1890; its specific name, gracilis, is derived from the Latin for...
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Tule elk (category Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam)
Genus: Cervus Species: C. canadensis Subspecies: C. c. nannodes Trinomial name Cervus canadensis nannodes (Merriam, 1905) Synonyms Cervus elaphus nannodes...
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Guadalupe fur seal (category Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam)
Genus: Arctocephalus Species: A. townsendi Binomial name Arctocephalus townsendi Merriam, 1897 Dark blue: breeding colonies; light blue: other colonies...
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Kaibab squirrel (category Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam)
Order: Rodentia Family: Sciuridae Genus: Sciurus Species: S. aberti Subspecies: S. a. kaibabensis Trinomial name Sciurus aberti kaibabensis Merriam, 1904...
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Olympic marmot (category Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam)
1–6 every other mating season. American zoologist and ethnographer Clinton Hart Merriam first formally described the Olympic marmot in 1898, as Arctomys...
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Tres Marias raccoon (category Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam)
classified as a subspecies of the common raccoon (Procyon lotor) by Clinton Hart Merriam. In 1950, Edward Alphonso Goldman identified it as a distinct species...
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Antelope squirrel (category Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam)
Sciuridae Tribe: Marmotini Genus: Ammospermophilus Merriam, 1892 Type species Spermophilus leucurus Merriam, 1892 Species A. harrisii A. insularis A. interpres...
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Kings River Yokuts. Information on the language was collected by Clinton Hart Merriam and Stanley Newman. Jennie Irene Oliver, one of the last fully fluent...
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Oriental Basin pocket gopher (category Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam)
Mexico. It was first described in 1895 by Clinton Hart Merriam. It was considered to be a subspecies of Merriam's pocket gopher (Cratogeomys merriami) in...
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Cozumel coati (category Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam)
Nasua Species: N. narica Subspecies: N. n. nelsoni Trinomial name Nasua narica nelsoni Merriam, 1901 Cozumel Island coati range Synonyms Nasua nelsoni...
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Wild turkey (redirect from Merriam's Turkey)
mountainous regions. The subspecies was named in 1900 in honor of Clinton Hart Merriam, the first chief of the U.S. Biological Survey. The tail and lower...
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adopted in 1930 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to honor Dr. Clinton Hart Merriam (1855–1942), an American zoologist and naturalist, who served on...
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burning sulfur and sewer gas "magnified a thousand times", though Clinton Hart Merriam claimed that it is not "one tenth" as offensive as that produced...
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Heather vole (category Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam)
Cricetidae Subfamily: Arvicolinae Tribe: Phenacomyini Genus: Phenacomys Merriam, 1889 Type species Phenacomys intermedius Species Phenacomys intermedius...
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