Wade Fox

Wade Fox
Wade Fox
Born	June 2, 1920; Hilton, Virginia, US
Died	September 20, 1964 (aged 43-44)
Citizenship	American
Education	UC Berkeley; University of North Carolina;
	Scientific career
Fields	Herpetology
Institutions	University of Southern California; Louisiana State University;
Theses	Biology of the garter snakes of the San Francisco Bay Region (1950); Variation in the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) along the lower Columbia River (1946);
Doctoral advisor	Robert C. Stebbins

Rufus Wade Fox Jr. (June 2, 1920 – September 20, 1964), was an American zoologist and herpetologist from the University of California, Berkeley. He specialized in the anatomy of snakes and the systematics of the western garter snakes.

Biography

Wade Fox was born on June 2, 1920 in Hilton, Virginia.

He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1943 and then earned a Master's (1946) and doctoral degree at the University of California, Berkeley, working as Curatorial Assistant of in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology from 1943–1949, and earning a PhD under Robert C. Stebbins in 1950.[1] His dissertation topic was "Biology of the Garter Snakes of the San Francisco Bay Region".[2] Later he became president of Herpetologists' League and an editor of the journal Copeia.[3]

He named several garter snake (Thamnophis) subspecies, including Thamnophis elegans terrestris, Thamnophis elegans aquaticus (now a synonym of T. atratus atratus) and Thamnophis sirtalis fitchi.[2] He is commemorated in the name of the Fox's mountain meadow snake (Adelophis foxi ).[3]

Wade Fox died of a heart attack following heart surgery on September 20, 1964.[1][3]

Partial bibliography

Fox W (1951). "Relationships among the garter snakes of the Thamnophis elegans rassenkreis". Univ. California Publ. Zool. 50: 485–529.
Fox W (1951). "The status of the gartersnake, Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia". Copeia. 1951: 257–267. doi:10.2307/1438309.
Fox W (1954). "Genetic and environmental variation in the timing of the reproductive cycles of male garter snakes". J. Morphol. 95: 415–450. doi:10.1002/jmor.1050950303.

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References

Dessauer HC (1965). "Wade Fox, Jr., 1920–1964". Copeia. 1965 (1): 123. JSTOR 1441262.
Rodríguez-Robles JA, Good DA, Wake DB (2003). "Brief history of herpetology in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, with a list of type specimens of recent amphibians and reptiles" (PDF). University of California Publications in Zoology. 131: 1–119. ISSN 0068-6506.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link) ("Fox, W.", p. 93).

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[Dessauer1965-1] Dessauer HC (1965). "Wade Fox, Jr., 1920–1964". Copeia. 1965 (1): 123. JSTOR 1441262.

[rodriguez-robles-2] Rodríguez-Robles JA, Good DA, Wake DB (2003). "Brief history of herpetology in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, with a list of type specimens of recent amphibians and reptiles" (PDF). University of California Publications in Zoology. 131: 1–119. ISSN 0068-6506.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

[beolens-3] Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link) ("Fox, W.", p. 93).