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William Bebb Richardson (29 February 1912, Pasadena, California – 25 January 2006, Lindsay, California) was an American mammalogist.

Richardson received his bachelor's degree in 1935 from the University of California, Berkeley. He participated in the Archbold 1938–1939 expedition to New Guinea.

Associated eponyms for William Bebb Richardson

• Microhydromys richardsoni – Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse (or Richardson's shrew mouse)
• Rattus richardsoni – Glacier rat (or Richardson's mountain rat)

References

1. Hartman Family Tree, William Bebb Richardson - Marjorie Elizabeth Wright
2. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2009). Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 340. ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9. The two mammalian species names for Richardson's mountain rat and Richardson's shrew mouse are associated with the mammalogist William Bebb Richardson; William Blaney Richardson was long dead at the time of the Archbold expedition.
3. Richardson, William Bebb (1937). "Description of a Race of Perognathus longimembris from Tulare County, California". Journal of Mammalogy. 18 (4): 510–511. doi:10.2307/1374346. JSTOR 1374346.
4. Rand, Austin Loomer; Archbold, Richard; Richardson, William B. (1940). New birds from the 1938–1939 expedition. American Museum of Natural History.
5. Tate, George Henry Hamilton; Archbold, Richard; Richardson, William B. (1941). New rodents and marsupials from New Guinea. American Museum of Natural History.
6. Richardson, William B. (1942). "Ring-Tailed Cats (Bassariscus astutus): Their Growth and Development". Journal of Mammalogy. 23 (1): 17–26. doi:10.2307/1374851. JSTOR 1374851.

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