Glen Milton Storr
{{Short description|Australian ornithologist and herpetologist}}
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| birth_date = 27 December 1921
| birth_place = Adelaide
| death_date = {{dda|1990|06|26|1921|12|27|df=y}}
| death_place = Perth
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| fields = Ornithology
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| workplaces=Lands Department South Australia, Western Australian Museum
| nationality = Australian
| author_abbrev_bot = G.M.Storr
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Dr. Glen Milton Storr (27 December 1921 – 26 June 1990) was an Australian ornithologist and herpetologist. He joined the Western Australian Museum in 1962 and became curator of ornithology and herpetology in 1965. He was a member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU), and served as secretary of the Western Australian Branch of the RAOU in 1954.
Storr produced his postgraduate research on kangaroos. His tenure as curator at the WA museum ended in 1986.{{cite web |title=Storr, Glen Milton - Biographical entry - Encyclopedia of Australian Science |url=http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001977b.htm |website=www.eoas.info |publisher=The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research |language=en-gb |date=1993}}
Career
Storr was born in Adelaide in 1921, and had become a cadet land surveyor with the South Australian Lands Department in 1939. World War II interrupted his training when he joined the Australian Infantry in 1942, serving with the Second Ninth Field Regiment in New Guinea and Queensland (1943–1945) Following the war, he became a licensed surveyor in South Australia in 1947.{{Cite journal|last=Smith|first=Laurie A.|date=1991|title=Glen Milton Storr, 1921-1990|journal=Copeia|volume=1991|issue=2|pages=550–552|jstor=1446616}}
Legacy
{{see also|:Category:Taxa named by Glen Milton Storr}}
Storr was one of the most prolific alpha-taxonomists in herpetology, describing 232 species and subspecies of reptiles, which places him in the top-10 of all-time world-wide.{{Cite journal|last1=Uetz|first1=Peter|last2=Stylianou|first2=Alexandrea|date=2018-01-24|title=The original descriptions of reptiles and their subspecies|url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4375.2.5|journal=Zootaxa|language=en|volume=4375|issue=2|pages=257–264|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4375.2.5|pmid=29689772|issn=1175-5334|doi-access=free}} He is commemorated in the scientific names of five species of reptiles: Carlia storri, Ctenotus storri, Lerista storri, Morethia storri, and Varanus storri.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Storr", p. 256).
References
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External links
- {{cite journal|last1=Davies|first1=S.J.J.F.|title=Glen Milton Storr|journal=Emu - Austral Ornithology|volume=91|issue=1|year=2016|pages=66|issn=0158-4197|doi=10.1071/MU9910066}}
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Category:Australian ornithologists
Category:Australian herpetologists
Category:Scientists from Western Australia