# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-garstang
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:30:19.846Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-garstang"
name: "Walter Garstang"
slug: "walter-garstang"
description: "Walter Garstang FLS FZS, a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford and Professor of Zoology at the University of Leeds, was one of the first to study the functional biology of marine invertebrate larvae. His best known works on marine larvae were his poems published as Larval Forms and Other Zoological Verses, especially The Ballad of the Veliger. They describe the form and function of several marine larvae as well as illustrating some controversies in evolutionary biology of the time."
tagline: "British zoologist (1868–1949)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/Walter_Garstang.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1868-02-09"
deathDate: "1949-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Walter Garstang"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump