Benjamin Shreve
Benjamin Shreve was an American amateur herpetologist. He was from a wealthy Boston family of jewellers and worked at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology as a volunteer. He was trained by Arthur Loveridge to deal with materials from elsewhere than Africa. Shreve described many species from the West Indies together with Thomas Barbour. In these papers, Shreve is said to have done the "spadework" while Barbour wrote "florid" introductions.
Species named in honor of Benjamin Shreve
s named in honor of Shreve include:- Dipsadoboa shrevei – Shreve's tree snake
- Oreosaurus shrevei – Shreve's lightbulb lizard
- Anolis shrevei – Shreve's anole
- Sphaerodactylus shrevei – Shreve's least gecko
- Dendrobates shrevei – bluebelly poison frog
- Hyla shrevei – green bromeliad frog or Wilder's treefrog
- Anomaloglossus shrevei – Shreve's rocket frog
- ''Pristimantis shrevei''