Ethelwynn Trewavas

Ethelwynn Trewavas ( born November 5, 1900 in Penzance, Cornwall, † 16 August 1993 ) was a British zoologist and ichthyologist who has studied particularly the African cichlids ( Macropodusinae ).

From 1917 to 1921 she studied at the University of Reading and published at the end of their studies for the first scientific publication on sea urchins in the Journal of the Marine Biological Association. After completing her studies, she worked in the following four years, first as a teacher of natural sciences. In 1925 she got a job at King's College London, henceforth the research was able to devote and conducted research on various anatomical characteristics of frogs and toads. At King 's College, she met the ichthyologist Charles Tate Regan, who became her mentor and made ​​her his assistant until 1935 moved to the British Museum of Natural History and there was later Deputy Curator of Zoology.

Regan also inspired her interest for African cichlids, particularly for the Tilapiini and the mbuna of Lake Malawi. In 1935 Trewavas a standard work on the cichlids of Lake Malawi, in 1982 another on the Tilapiini. In 1939, she traveled to Malawi to catch fish and to explore it. Later she undertook research and collecting trips to Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, the crater lakes of Cameroon and described numerous new species. Besides cichlids addressed and explored Ethelwynn Trewavas especially the croakers ( Sciaenidae ). In 1961 she retired from professional life.

For their research, it was established in 1946 Honorary Member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. She was awarded the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London in 1968 and in 1986 received an honorary doctorate from the University of Stirling.

After Trewavas named taxa

  • Eustomias trewavasae Norman, 1930
  • Glyptothorax trewavasae Hora, 1938
  • Trewavasia ( White & Moy -Thomas 1941)
  • Petrochromis trewavasae Poll, 1948
  • Symphurus trewavasae Chabanaud, 1948
  • Garra trewavasai Monod, 1950
  • Labeotropheus trewavasae Fryer, 1956
  • Garra ethelwynnae Menon, 1958
  • Neolebias trewavasae Poll & Gosse, 1963
  • Atrobucca trewavasae Talwar & Sathirajan, 1975
  • Protosciaena trewavasae ( Chao & Miller, 1975)
  • Linophryne trewavasae Bertelsen, 1978
  • Gobiocichla ethelwynnae Roberts, 1982
  • Phenacostethus trewavasae Parenti, 1986
  • Aulonocara ethelwynnae Meyer, Riehl & Zetzsche, 1987
  • Tylochromis trewavasae Stiassny, 1989
  • Triplophysa trewavasae Mirza & Ahmad, 1990
  • Johnius trewavasae Sasaki, 1992
  • Rhynchoconger trewavasae Ben- Tuvia, 1993
  • Copadichromis trewavasae Konings, 1999
  • Etia Schliewen & Stiassny, 2003
  • Placidochromis trewavasae Hanssens, 2004

Publications

  • Ethelwynn Trewavas publications

Source

  • Obituary in The Independent: Obituary: Ethelwynn Trewavas
  • Ichthyologist
  • Zoologist
  • Honorary doctorate from the University of Stirling
  • English
  • Born 1900
  • Died in 1993
  • Woman
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