Albert William Christian Theodore Herre (September 16, 1868 – January 16, 1962) was an Americanichthyologist andlichenologist.[1] Herre was born in 1868 inToledo, Ohio. He was an alumnus ofStanford University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in botany in 1903. Herre also received a master's degree and a Ph.D. from Stanford, both in ichthyology.[2] He died inSanta Cruz, California in 1962.[3]
Albert W. Herre was perhaps best known for histaxonomic work in the Philippines, where he was the Chief of Fisheries of theBureau of Science inManila from 1919 to 1928. While in the Bureau of Science of theInsular Government of the Philippine Islands (which was administered by the United States at the time), Herre was responsible for discovering and describing new species of fish.[4]
Herre, A. W. (1927). "Gobies of the Philippines and the China sea".The Philippine Bureau of Science, Monographic Publications on Fishes.23. Manila:Bureau of Printing: 78.
Herre, A. W. (1925). "Notes on Philippine Sharks, II. The great white shark, the whale shark, and the cat sharks and their allies in the Philippines".Philippine Journal of Fisheries.26 (1). Manila:Bureau of Printing:113–129.
Herre, A. W. (1924). "Distribution of the true fresh-water fishes in Philippines I: The Philippine Cyprinidae".Philippine Journal of Science.24 (3). Manila:Bureau of Printing:249–307.
^Pietsch, T. W.; Anderson, W. D. Jr., eds. (1997). "Albert William Christian Theodore Herre (1868–1962): A brief autobiography and a bibliography of his ichthyological and fishery science publications, with a foreword by George S. Myers (1905–1985); Collection Building in Ichthyology and Herpetology".American Society of Ichthyology and Herpetology, Special Publications.3:351–366.
^Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011).The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp.ISBN978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Herre", p. 122).
^Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018)."Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family NEMACHEILIDAE (a-p)".The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved17 March 2021.
