Edward J. Miers
✓ Source-basedfallingBritish carcinologist, zoologist and curator (1851- 1930)
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Edward John Miers FZS FLS was a British zoologist and curator of the crustacean collection at the Natural History Museum in London.
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The new Natural History Museum buildings, completed in 1880. Miers spent much of his time arranging for specimens to be moved here from Bloomsbury.
The voyages of H.M.S. Challenger provided the specimens for Miers' magnum opus.
Portunus trituberculatus, the most heavily fished crab in the world, was described in Edward Miers in 1876.Awards 2
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Edward John Miers FZS FLS was a British zoologist and curator of the crustacean collection at the Natural History Museum in London. He contributed to the scientific reports from the Challenger expedition of 1872-1876, and described 32 new genera and at least 260 new species and subspecies of decapod crustaceans, along with four genera and 72 new species in other orders.
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Lived 1851 to 1930 · aged 79
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