Peter Humphry Greenwood FRS FIBiol (21 April 1927 – 3 March 1995) was an English ichthyologist. Humphry married fellow student Marjorie George (1924 – 2006) in 1950. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1985. He was known for his work on the species flocks of cichlids in the African Great Lakes, and for studies of the phylogeny and systematics of teleosts.
Tribute
The cichlid fish Diplotaxodon greenwoodi is named for him. Also Brachyaetoides greenwoodi Bonde, 2008 is named for him. As is Enteromius greenwoodi (Poll 1967).
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References
- "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/58209. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Howes, Gordon (11 March 1995). "OBITUARIES: Humphry Greenwood – People, News – The Independent". London. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
- Patterson, C. (1997). "Peter Humphry Greenwood. 21 April 1927--3 March 1995: Elected F.R.S. 1985". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 43: 195. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1997.0011. JSTOR 770332.
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 July 2018). "Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily PSEUDOCRENILABRINAE (a-g)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
External links
Data related to P. Humphry Greenwood at Wikispecies
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