Sidney Irving Smith

Sidney Irving Smith (born February 18, 1843 in Norway, Maine; died May 17 1926) was an American zoologist. Sidney Smith was the son of Elliot Smith and Lavinia Barton. His brother in law was Addison Emery Verrill. In his youth, he became expert on the fauna around his home town, and an expert at making collections, particularly of insects. He studied at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, and received his Ph.D. in 1867. He stayed on at Yale, initially as an assistant, but, from 1876, as the first professor of comparative anatomy, a post he retained until his retirement in 1906. He married Eugenia P. Barber on June 29, 1882. Even as professor emeritus, Smith remained at Yale.

Having begun as an entomologist (being State Entomologist in 1872 and 1873), Smith changed relatively early in his career to the study of crustaceans, probably because of his work with the United States Fish Commission. He participated in many field excursions, sometimes in collaboration with Verrill or with Louis Agassiz. Smith was in charge of the dredging of Lake Superior carried out by the United States Lake Survey in 1871, and the dredging in the region of St. George's Banks in 1872 carried out by the United States Coast Survey.

In 1884, Smith was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In a career that was eventually troubled by health problems, Smith produced more than 70 original papers. His collections are now housed in the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale and at the National Museum of Natural History.

Taxa named by Sidney Irving Smith

*"Acanthephyra brevirostris" S. I. Smith, 1885
*"Admete nodosa" Verrill and Smith, 1885
*"Ampithoe longimana" S. I. Smith, 1873
*"Ampithoe valida" S. I. Smith, 1873
*"Arctus americanus" S. I. Smith, 1869
*"Argulus laticauda" S. I. Smith, 1873
*"Argulus latus" S. I. Smith, 1873
*"Argulus megalops" S. I. Smith, 1873
*"Benthonectes filipes" S. I. Smith, 1885
*"Benthonectes" S. I. Smith, 1885
*"Beringius brychius" (Verrill and Smith, 1885)
*"Byblis serrata" S. I. Smith, 1873
*"Bythocaris gracilis" S. I. Smith, 1885
*"Bythocaris nana" S. I. Smith, 1885
*"Callinectes danae" S. I. Smith, 1869
*"Colletes perforator" Smith, 1869
*"Cymadusa compta" (S. I. Smith, 1873)
*"Dyspanopeus sayi" (S. I. Smith, 1869)
*"Elasmopus laevis" S. I. Smith, 1873
*"Elasmopus levis" (S. I. Smith, 1873)
*"Ephyrina benedicti" S. I. Smith, 1885
*"Ephyrina" S. I. Smith, 1885
*"Eucratopsis" Smith, 1869
*"Eunephrops bairdii" S. I. Smith, 1885
*"Eunephrops" S. I. Smith, 1885
*"Eurypanopeus depressus" (S. I. Smith, 1869)
*"Evibacus princeps" Smith, 1869
*"Evibacus" Smith, 1869
*"Gammarus annulatus" S. I. Smith, 1873
*"Hadropenaeus modestus" (S. I. Smith, 1885)
*"Haliporus modestus" (S. I. Smith, 1885)
*"Haliporus robustus" (S. I. Smith, 1885)
*"Heterogenys microphthalma" (S. I. Smith, 1885)
*"Heteromysis formosa" S. I. Smith, 1873
*"Heteromysis" S. I. Smith, 1873
*"Hippolyte zostericola" (S. I. Smith, 1873)
*"Hyalopecten undatus" (A. E. Verrill and S. Smith, 1885)
*"Hymenopenaeus modestus" S. I. Smith, 1885
*"Hymenopenaeus robustus" S. I. Smith, 1885
*"Melita nitida" S. I. Smith, 1873
*"Metapenaeopsis goodei" (S. I. Smith, 1885)
*"Metapenaeus goodei" (S. I. Smith, 1885)
*"Munidopsis crassa" S. I. Smith, 1885
*"Munidopsis similis" S. I. Smith, 1885
*"Mysis stenolepis" S. I. Smith, 1873
*"Neomysis americana" (S. I. Smith, 1873)
*"Neopanope sayi" (S. I. Smith, 1869)
*"Neopanope texana sayi" (S. I. Smith, 1869)
*"Palaemon ensiculus" Smith, 1869
*"Panopeus hartii" S. I. Smith, 1869
*"Panopeus harttii" S. I. Smith, 1869
*"Panopeus obesus" S. I. Smith, 1869
*"Panopeus sayi" S. I. Smith, 1869
*"Panulirus echinatus" Smith, 1869
*"Parapenaeus goodei" S. I. Smith, 1885
*"Parapenaeus megalops" Smith, 1885
*"Parapenaeus" S. I. Smith, 1885
*"Penaeopsis goodei" (S. I. Smith, 1885)
*"Penaeopsis megalops" (Smith, 1885)
*"Pleoticus robustus" (S. I. Smith, 1885)
*"Pontonia margarita" Smith, 1869
*"Rimapenaeus similis" (S. I. Smith, 1885)
*"Scyllarus americanus" (S. I. Smith, 1869)
*"Scyphacella arenicola" S. I. Smith, 1873
*"Scyphacella" S. I. Smith, 1873
*"Thyasira grandis" Verrill and Smith, 1885
*"Thyasira plicata" Verrill and Smith, 1885
*"Trachypenaeus similis" (S. I. Smith, 1885)
*"Xiphopenaeus hartii" Smith, 1869
*"Xiphopenaeus" Smith, 1869

Taxa named after Sidney Irving Smith

*"Lembos smithi" Holmes, 1905
*"Metapenaeopsis smithi" (Schmitt, 1924)
*"Oxyurostylis smithi" Calman, 1912
*"Pandarus smithi" Rathbun, 1886
*"Siphonoecetes smithianus" Rathbun, 1908
*and possibly "Gonodactylus smithii" Pocock, 1893

References

* Gilberto Rodriguez (1993): From Oviedo to Rathbun: The development of brachyuran crab taxonomy in the Neotropics (1535-1937). "In:" F. Truesdale (Ed.): "History of Carcinology", Balkema (Rotterdam), "Crustacean Issues", 8 : 41-73.