[1] Samuel Booker McDowell Jr. (1928–2014)[2][3] was an American herpetologist who worked on the comparative anatomy of turtles and snakes,[3] and studied snakes of Oceania.
(1947) and a Ph.D. (1957) from Columbia University,[3] and worked at the American Museum of Natural History.
[2] In addition to his scientific work, McDowell was a friend of New Yorker writer A.J.
Liebling,[6] and an occasional contributor to the magazine in the early 1960s.
[9] Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a different genus.