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Austin Beatty Williams (October 17, 1919 – October 27, 1999) was an American carcinologist, "the acknowledged expert on and leader in studies of the systematics of eastern American decapod crustaceans".[1]
Austin B. Williams was born on October 17, 1919, in Plattsburg, Missouri, the eldest of three children to Oliver Perry Williams and Lucy Sell.[1] He was educated at McPherson College and the University of Kansas, gaining his Ph.D. in 1951.[1] He then worked at the University of North Carolina Institute of Fisheries Research, the University of Illinois, before gaining a position in the systematics laboratory of the National Marine Fisheries Service, based at the Smithsonian Institution.[1] He was married and had one son and two grandchildren. He died of cancer at Falls Church, Virginia, on October 27, 1999.[1]
Williams' first scientific paper, published in 1952, described six new species of freshwater crayfish from the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma;[2] he continued to publish until his death in 1999, accruing 118 publications in that time.[1] His most important works[1] include monographs on the marine decapod crustaceans of the Carolinas,[3] on the decapods of the Atlantic coast of the United States,[4] and on the lobsters of the world's oceans.[5][6] He won several awards, including the Crustacean Society's Excellence in Research Award[7] and the American Fisheries Society's Oscar Elton Sette Award.[1]
Taxa
Austin B. Williams described or co-described 101 new taxa of decapod crustaceans, from the rank of subspecies to superfamily (obelisks mark fossil taxa):[1]
- Alvinocaris Williams & Chace, 1982
- Alvinocaris lusca Williams & Chace, 1982
- Alvinocaris markensis Williams, 1988
- Alvinocaris muricola Williams, 1988
- Alvinocaris stactophila Williams, 1988
- Leptalpheus Williams, 1965
- Leptalpheus forceps Williams, 1965
- Ogyrides hayi Williams, 1981
- Ogyrides limicola Williams, 1955
- Opaepele Williams & Dobbs, 1995
- Opaepele loihi Williams & Dobbs, 1995
- Rimicaris Williams & Rona, 1986
- Rimicaris chacei Williams & Rona, 1986
- Rimicaris exoculata Williams & Rona, 1986
- Homarinus Kornfield, Williams & Steneck, 1995
- Orconectes eupunctus Williams, 1952
- Orconectes meeki brevis Williams, 1952
- Orconectes nana Williams, 1952
- Orconectes nana marcus Williams, 1952
- Orconectes neglectus chaenodactylus Williams, 1952
- Orconectes ozarkae Williams, 1952
- †Axiopsis eximia Kensley & Williams, 1990
- Calocaris jenneri Williams, 1974
- Calocaris oxypleura Williams, 1974
- Aethogebia Williams, 1993
- Aethogebia gorei Williams, 1993
- Pomatogebia Williams & Ngoc-Ho, 1990
- Upogebia acanthops Williams, 1986
- Upogebia aestuari Williams, 1993
- Upogebia aquilina Williams, 1993
- Upogebia baldwini Williams, 1997
- Upogebia bermudensis Williams, 1993
- Upogebia burkenroadi Williams, 1986
- Upogebia careospina Williams, 1993
- Upogebia casis Williams, 1993
- Upogebia cocosia Williams, 1986
- Upogebia coralliflora Williams & Scott, 1989
- Upogebia cortesi Williams, 2000
- Upogebia dawsoni Williams, 1986
- Upogebia felderi Williams, 1993
- Upogebia galapagensis Williams, 1986
- Upogebia inomissa Williams, 1993
- Upogebia jonesi Williams, 1986
- Upogebia lepta Williams, 1986
- Upogebia maccraryae Williams, 1986
- Upogebia macginitieorum Williams, 1986
- Upogebia molipollex Williams, 1993
- Upogebia omissago Williams, 1993
- Upogebia onychion Williams, 1986
- Upogebia paraffinis Williams, 1993
- Upogebia pillsbury Williams, 1993
- Upogebia ramphula Williams, 1986
- Upogebia schmitti Williams, 1986
- Upogebia spinistipula Williams & Heard, 1991
- Upogebia synagelas Williams, 1987
- Upogebia tenuipollex Williams, 1986
- Upogebia thistlei Williams, 1986
- Upogebia toralae Williams & Hernández-Aguilera, 1998
- Upogebia vargasae Williams, 1997
- Upogebia veleronis Williams, 1986
- Munidopsis alvisca Williams, 1998
- Munidopsis glabra Pequegnat & Williams, 1995
- Munidopsis granosicorium Williams & Baba, 1990
- Munidopsis lentigo Williams & Van Dover, 1983
- Munidopsis lignaria Williams & Baba, 1990
- Munidopsis marianica Williams & Baba, 1990
- Shinkaia Baba & Williams, 1998
- Shinkaia crosnieri Baba & Williams, 1998
- Uroptychus edisoniscus Baba & Williams, 1998
- Allactaea Williams, 1974
- Allactaea lithorostrata Williams, 1974
- Bothromaia Williams & Moffit, 1991
- Bothromaia griffini Williams & Moffit, 1991
- Bythograeoidea Williams, 1980
- Bythograeidae Williams, 1980
- Bythograea Williams, 1980
- Bythograea mesatlantica Williams, 1988
- Bythograea thermydon Williams, 1980
- Callinectes similis Williams, 1966
- Cyclozodion Williams & Child, 1989
- Cyclozodion tuberatum Williams & Child, 1989
- Epilobocera wetherbeei Rondríguez & Williams, 1995
- Eplumula Williams, 1982
- †Heus Bishop & Williams, 2000
- †Heus forsteri Bishop & Williams, 2000
- Hypsophrys noar Williams, 1974
- Latreillia manningi Williams, 1982
- Latreillia metanesa Williams, 1982
- Menippe adina Williams & Felder, 1986
- Mimilambridae Williams, 1979
- Mimilambrus Williams, 1979
- Mimilambrus wileyi Williams, 1979
- †Necrocarcinus olsonorum Bishop & Williams, 1991
- Ovalipes stephensoni Williams, 1976
- Panopeus austrobesus Williams, 1984
- Panopeus margentus Williams & Boschi, 1990
- Panopeus meridionalis Williams, 1984
- Plagiophthalmus bjorki Bishop & Williams, 2000
- Raninella manningi Bishop & Williams, 2000
- Rochinia decipiata Williams & Eldgredge, 1994
- Stilbomastax Williams, Shaw & Hopkins, 1977
One genus and several species were named by other scientists in honor of Williams. They include:[1][8]
- Plesionika williamsi Forest, 1974 – a species of deep-water shrimp
- Agostocaris williamsi Hart & Manning, 1986 – a species of shrimp from the Caribbean Sea
- Austinograea williamsi Hessler & Martin, 1989 – a crab from hydrothermal vents; both the genus and the specific epithet commemorate Williams
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