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Parker, Hampton Wildman

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Dates of existence

1897-1968

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Hampton Wildman Parker was an English zoologist. Parker was Keeper of Zoology at the Natural History Museum from 1947 to 1957. He was the author of several on snakes and frogs. He discovered a new species of of lizard on the Seychelles, which he described and named Vesey-Fitzgerald's burrowing skink (Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi) after entomologist Leslie Desmond Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald

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Zoologist
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Parker, Hampton Wildman

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Type of entity

Person

Dates of existence

1897-1968

Description area

History

Hampton Wildman Parker was an English zoologist. Parker was Keeper of Zoology at the Natural History Museum from 1947 to 1957. He was the author of several on snakes and frogs. He discovered a new species of of lizard on the Seychelles, which he described and named Vesey-Fitzgerald's burrowing skink (Janetaescincus veseyfitzgeraldi) after entomologist Leslie Desmond Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald

Occupations

Zoologist
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