David Humphreys Storer

David Humphreys Storer was an American physician and naturalist. He served as dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard Medical School from 1855 to 1864.
He identified numerous fish species and published on the reptiles and fishes of New England. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1872.
The colubrid snake genus Storeria is named in his honor.
Physician and anti-abortion activist Horatio Storer and chemist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and dean of the Bussey Institution at Harvard University Francis Humphreys Storer are his sons.

Species descriptions

Among the fish he described are:

The tessellated darter '
The yellowtail flounder '
The rainbow darter '
The northern pipefish '
The kelp pipefish '
The ashy darter '
The northern studfish '
The wrymouth ', sometimes called a ghostfish
The blackspotted topminnow,

He also described the snake Storeria occipitomaculata, commonly known as the redbelly snake.

:Category:Taxa named by David Humphreys Storer

Selected publications

Storer, David Humphreys; Peabody, William Bourne Oliver. Reports on the Fishes, Reptiles and Birds of Massachusetts. Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, State Printers.
Storer DH. . Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2: 253–550.
Storer DH. . Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 5 : 122–168.
Storer DH. . Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 6 : 309–372.