Richard Lydekker

Richard Lydekker (July 25, 1849 London – April 16, 1915 Harpenden), British-Indian naturalist, geologist, palaeontologist and Fellow of the Royal Society.

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• 42 taxon names authored by Richard Lydekker

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• 3 eponyms of Richard Lydekker

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• Lydekker, R. 1876–1880. Indian Tertiary and Post-Tertiary Vertebrata. Vol. I. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Palaeontologia Indica 10: 1–300. BHL
  • Parts II. Descriptions of the molar teeth and other remains of Mammalia [1876], III. Crania of ruminants from the Indian Tertiaries [1878], IV. Supplement to the crania of ruminants [1880], V. Siwalik and Nabarda Proboscidia [1880]. Reference page. 

• Lydekker, R. 1881–1884. Indian Tertiary and Post-Tertiary Vertebrata. Vol. II. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Palaeontologia Indica 10: 1–363. HathiTrust
  • Parts I. Siwalik Rhinocerotidae [1881], II. Supplement to Siwalik and Narbaba Proboscidia [1881], III. Siwalik and Narbaba Equidae [1882], IV. Siwalik Camelopardalidae [1882], V. Siwalik Selenodont Suina [1883], VI. Siwalik and Narbaba Carnivora [1884]. Reference page. 

• Lydekker, R. 1884–1886. Indian Tertiary and Post-Tertiary Vertebrata. Vol. III. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Palaeontologia Indica 10: 1–264. HathiTrust
  • Parts I. Additional Siwalik Perissodactyla and Proboscidea [1884], II. Siwalik & Narbada Bunodont Suina [1884], III. Rodents, Ruminants, & Synopsis of Mammalia [1884], IV. Siwalik Birds [1884], V. Mastodon Teeth from Perim Island [1884], VI. Siwalik and Narbaba Chelonia [1885], VII. Siwalik Crocodilia, Lacertilia, & Ophidia [1886], VIII. Tertiary Fishes [1886]. Reference page. 

• Lydekker, R. 1884. Siwalik and Narbada Carnivora. Palaeontologia Indica 2: 178–363. BHL Reference page. 

• Nicholson, H.A. & Lydekker, R. 1889. A manual of palæontology for the use of students, with a general introduction on the principles of palaeontology, volume II. 3rd ed., Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh / London: 889–1624 pp. Reference page. 

• Lydekker, R. 1890. Catalogue of the fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). Part IV. Containing the orders Anomodontia, Ecaudata, Caudata, and Labyrinthodontia; and supplement. London: British Museum (Natural History). BHL Reference page. 

• Lydekker, R. 1891. Catalogue of the fossil birds in the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History): London. BHL DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.8301 Reference page. 
• Flower, W.H. & Lydekker, R. 1891. An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct. Adam and Charles Black: London. 763 pp. BHL Reference page. 

• Lydekker, R. 1893. On the extinct giant birds of Argentina. Ibis 5: 40-47. BHL Reference page. 

• Lydekker, R. "1893" [1894?]. Contributions to a Knowledge of the Fossil Vertebrates of Argentina [Contribuciones al Conocimiento de los Vertebrados Fósiles de la Argentina]. 1.—The Dinosaurs of Patagonia [Los Dinosaurios de Patagonia]. 1–17. 2.—Cetacean Skulls from Patagonia [Cráneos de Cetáceos de Patagonia]. 1–13. 3.—A Study of the Extinct Ungulates of Argentina [Estudio Sobre los Ungulados Extinguidos de la Argentina]. 1–91. Anales del Museo de La Plata. Paleontología Argentina II. BHL Reference page. 
• Lydekker, R. 1894. Contributions to a Knowledge of the Fossil Vertebrates of Argentina. Part II. [Contribuciones al Conocimiento de los Vertebrados Fósiles de la Argentina. Parte II.]. 1.—Supplemental Observations on the Extinct Ungulates of Argentina [Observaciones Suplementales sobre los Ungulados Extinguidos de la Argentina]. 1–6. 2.—The Extinct Edentates of Argentina [Los Edentados Extinguidos de la Argentina]. 1–118. 3.—On Two Argentine Extinct Carnivores [Sobre dos Carnivoros Argentinos Extinguidos]. 1–4. Anales del Museo de La Plata. Paleontología Argentina III. BHL Reference page. 

• Lydekker, R. 1895. On bones of a sauropodous dinosaur from Madagascar. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 51(1–4): 329–336. DOI: 10.1144/gsl.jgs.1895.051.01-04.25 . BHL. Reference page. 

• Lydekker, R. 1900. On a remarkable new species of mangabey-like monkey (Cercocebus chrysogaster). Novitates Zoologicae 7(2): 279–280. BHL Reference page. 
• Lydekker, R. 1900. Note on two mangabey-like monkeys (Cercocebus hagenbecki and Semnocebus albigena rothschildi), now living in the menagerie of the Zoological Society. Novitates Zoologicae 7(4): 593–596. BHL Reference page. 

• Lydekker, R. 1903. Local Variation in the Giraffe. Animal Life and the World of Nature: a magazine of natural history 2: 78–84, 121–122. BHL Reference page. 

• Lydekker, R. 1904. On the subspecies of Giraffa camelopardalis. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 74(1): 202–227. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1904.tb08288.x BHL Reference page. 

• Lydekker, R. 1906. Descriptions of Two Mammals from the Ituri Forest. [With a Supplementary Note on the Buffalo of the Semliki District.] Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 992–996. BHL Reference page. 

• Lydekker, R. 1911. Two Undescribed Giraffes. Nature 87(2189): 484. DOI: 10.1038/087484c0 BHL Reference page. 

• Lydekker, R. 1913. Catalogue of the ungulate mammals in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. I. Artiodactyla, family Bovidæ, subfamilies Bovinæ to Ovibovinæ (cattle, sheep, goats, chamois, serows, takin, musk-oxen, etc.). London: Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum. i–xvii, 1–249. BHL Reference page. 

• Lydekker, R. 1914. Catalogue of the ungulate mammals in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. II. Artiodactyla, family Bovidæ, subfamilies Bubalinæ to Reduncinæ (hartebeests, gnus, duikers, dik-diks, klipspringers, reedbucks, waterbucks, etc.). London: Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum. i–xvi, 1–295. BHL Reference page. 
• Lydekker, R. 1914. Catalogue of the ungulate mammals in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. III. Artiodactyla, family Bovidæ, subfamilies Aecyperotinæ to Tragelaphinæ (pala, saiga, gazelles, oryx group, bushbucks, kudus, elands, etc.). London: Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum. i–xv, 1–283. BHL Reference page. 

• Lydekker, R. 1915. Catalogue of the ungulate mammals in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. IV. Artiodactyla, families Cervidæ (deer), Tragulidæ (chevrotains), Camelidæ (camels and llamas), Suidæ (pigs and peccaries), and Hippopotamidæ (hippopotamuses). Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, British Museum Catalogue. 438 pp. BHL Reference page. 

• Lydekker, R. 1916. Catalogue of the ungulate mammals in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. V. Perissodactyla (horses, tapirs, rhinoceroses), Hyracoidea (hyraxes), Proboscidea (elephants). With addenda to the earlier volumes. London: Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum. i–xlv, 1–207. BHL Reference page.