Cecil F. Underwood
Cecil Frank Underwood was a British scientific collector of mammal and bird specimens in Central America.
Early life
Underwood was born on 26 October 1867 in London, England.His parents were George and Amelia Dodd Underwood. During his early life, he was an apprentice for a taxidermist. On behalf of the British Museum of Natural History, Underwood traveled to the U.S., arriving in New York on 26 October 1888, which was his twenty-first birthday.
Career
In April 1889, he left the U.S. for Costa Rica. He largely remained in Costa Rica for the rest of his life, though he made extensive trips to Honduras for specimen collecting from 1932 to 1938.While Underwood primarily focused on birds and mammals, he collected other taxa as well such as freshwater fish.
Namesake species
- Underwood's long-tongued bat
- Underwood's bonneted bat
- Underwood's water mouse
- Craugastor underwoodi—A species of frog
- Melese underwoodi—A species of moth
- Underwood's tussock moth
- Symphlebia underwoodi—A species of moth