William Neil Eschmeyer, also known asBill Eschmeyer, U.S. taxonomist and ichthyologist. Founder and developer of the database and reference workCatalog of Fishes, hosted by the California Academy of Sciences and available both on-line and in print.

• Curator Emeritus, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California
• Research Associate,Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida

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• 8 taxon names authored byWilliam N. Eschmeyer

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• Poss, S.G. &Eschmeyer, W.N. 1980.Xenaploactis, a new genus forProsopodasys asperrimus Günther (Pisces: Aploactinidae), with descriptions of two new species.Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, (Series 4) 42(8): 287–293.BHLReference page. 

• Eschmeyer, W.N. 1990.Catalog of the genera of recent fishes. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; 697 pp.ISBN 0-940228-23-8Internet ArchiveReference page. 

• Eschmeyer, W.N. 1998.Catalog of fishes. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.Reference page. 

• van der Land, J.,Costello, M.J.,Zavodnik, D.,Santos, R.S.,Porteiro, F.M.,Bailly, N.,Eschmeyer, W.N. &Froese, R. 2001. Pisces, in:Costello, M.J.et al. (Ed.) 2001. European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification.Collection Patrimoines Naturels 50: pp. 357–374.Reference page. 

• Eschmeyer, W.N. &Fong, J.D. 2011. Pisces. Pp 26–38InZhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011.Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness.Zootaxa 3148: 1–237.Open access.Reference page. .Full article (PDF)Reference page. 

• Laan, R. van der,Eschmeyer, W.N. &Fricke, R. 2014. Family-group names of Recent fishes.Zootaxa 3882(1): 1–230.DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1Reference page. 

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