Donn Eric Rosen

Donn Eric Rosen (1929-1986) was a member of the staff of the American Museum of Natural History. He was a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.[1]

Donn Eric Rosen
Donn Eric Rosen
Born(1929-01-09)January 9, 1929
New York City, New York
DiedSeptember 22, 1986(1986-09-22) (aged 57)
Closter, New Jersey
Parents
  • Irwin Rosen (father)
  • Anita Gerber Rosen (mother)
Scientific career
FieldsIchthyology
InstitutionsAmerican Museum of Natural History
Doctoral studentsEdward Orlando Wiley III Roger Lansing Grande

Family

Born to immigrants Irwin Rosen (b. 1885) and Anita Gerber Rosen (b. 1906), Rosen has an older brother : Charles Welles. Both his parents were born in Russia. Irwin came to the United States in 1889 and had a career in architecture. Anita arrived in the United States prior to 1920.

Works

Rosen has written over twenty eight scientific papers.

Rosen has described twenty three species.


Selected publications
  • Rosen, Donn Eric, P. Humphry Greenwood 1970. Origin of the Weberian Apparatus and the Relationships of the Ostariophysan and Gonorynchiform Fishes, American Museum Novitates, American Museum of Natural History,New York, New York, USA, 2428[2]
  • Rosen, Donn Eric, Bailey, Reeve M. The Poeciliid Fishes (Cyprinodontiformes), Their Structure, Zoogeography, and Systematics. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 1963. 126(1) p59[3]
  • Cohen, Daniel M.; Ebeling, Alfred W.; Iwamoto, Tomio; McDowell, Samuel B.; Marshall, N. B.; Rosen, Donn E.; Sonoda, Pearl; III, Walter H. Weed; Woods, Loren P. (October 23, 2018). Orders Heteromi (Notacanthiformes), Berycomorphi (Beryciformes), Xenoberyces (Stephanoberyciformes), Anacanthini (Gadiformes): Part 6. Yale University Press. ISBN 9781933789293 – via Google Books.[4]
  • Rosen, Donn Eric (1973), "Interrelationships of higher euteleostean fishes", in Greenwood, P.H.; Miles, R.S.; Patterson, Colin (eds.), Interrelationships of Fishes, Academic Press, pp. 397–513, ISBN 0-12-300850-6
  • LEON CROIZAT,' GARETH NELSON AND DONN ERIC ROSEN, CENTERS OF ORIGIN and RELATED CONCEPTS, Systematic Zoology, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Jun., 1974), pp. 265-287

Legacy


Species named after Rosen
  • The Ricefish Adrianichthys roseni Parenti & Soeroto, 2004.[5] (Adrianichthyidae)
  • Brachyrhaphis roseni W. A. Bussing, 1988, (Poeciliidae)
  • Curimata roseni Vari, 1984 (Curimatidae)
  • The eel Meadia roseni H. K. Mok, C. Y. Lee & H. J. Chan, 1991 is named after him.[6](Synaphobranchidae)
  • Rakthamichthys roseni (R. M. Bailey & Gans, 1998) (Synbranchidae)
  • Sternarchorhynchus roseni Mago-Leccia, 1994 (Rosen's tube-snouted ghost knifefish) (Apteronotidae)
  • Xiphophorus roseni M. K. Meyer & Wischnath, 1981 (Poeciliidae)

See also
  • Category:Taxa named by Donn Eric Rosen

References
  1. Copeia Vol. 1987, No. 2 (May 13, 1987), p. 541
  2. Rosen, Donn Eric; P. Humphry Greenwood (1970-08-26). "Origin of the Weberian Apparatus and the Relationships of the Ostariophysan and Gonorynchiform Fishes". American Museum Novitates. New York, New York, USA: American Museum of Natural History (2428).
  3. Rosen, Donn Eric; Bailey, Reeve M. (1963). "The Poeciliid Fishes (Cyprinodontiformes), Their Structure, Zoogeography, and Systematics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 126 (1): 59. hdl:2246/1123.
  4. Cohen, Daniel M.; Ebeling, Alfred W.; Iwamoto, Tomio; McDowell, Samuel B.; Marshall, N. B.; Rosen, Donn E.; Sonoda, Pearl; III, Walter H. Weed; Woods, Loren P. (October 23, 2018). Orders Heteromi (Notacanthiformes), Berycomorphi (Beryciformes), Xenoberyces (Stephanoberyciformes), Anacanthini (Gadiformes): Part 6. Yale University Press. ISBN 9781933789163 – via Google Books.
  5. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (15 June 2019). "Order BELONIFORMES (Needlefishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  6. Meadia roseni at www.fishbase.org.
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