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Artie L. Metcalf
A Kansas-born zoologist and professor emeritus whose work helped map the freshwater fishes and mollusks of the American Southwest and Great Plains. His writing is especially valuable for readers interested in regional natural history and careful field research.
2 Audiobooks
Fishes of the Wakarusa River in Kansas
by James E. Deacon, Artie L. Metcalf
Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk Counties, Kansas
by Artie L. Metcalf
About the author
Born in Dexter, Kansas, in 1929, Artie L. Metcalf was an American malacologist and ichthyologist who spent much of his career studying freshwater life in the central and southwestern United States. He earned his bachelor's degree at Kansas State University, then completed both his master's degree and Ph.D. at the University of Kansas.
Metcalf taught at New Mexico Highlands University before joining the University of Texas at El Paso, where he became Curator of Mollusks in the Laboratory for Environmental Biology and later Professor Emeritus in Biological Sciences. His research focused on fishes and land snails, and several taxa were described by him or named in work connected to his studies.
As an author, he is remembered for practical, regionally focused books and papers, including works on the fishes of Kansas waterways. He died in Kansas in January 2016, leaving behind a body of work that continues to be useful to naturalists, students, and anyone curious about the biodiversity of the plains and borderlands.