Template:Short description Template:Infobox scientist 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.
BiographyEdit
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 to 1949, and earning a PhD under Robert C. Stebbins in 1950.<ref name=Dessauer1965/> His dissertation topic was "Biology of the Garter Snakes of the San Francisco Bay Region".<ref name=rodriguez-robles/> Later he became president of Herpetologists' League and an editor of the journal Copeia.<ref name=beolens/>
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.<ref name=rodriguez-robles/> He is commemorated in the name of the Fox's mountain meadow snake (Adelophis foxi ).<ref name=beolens/>
Wade Fox died of a heart attack following heart surgery on September 20, 1964.<ref name=Dessauer1965/><ref name=beolens/>
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