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T. Paul Maslin
Best known as an American herpetologist, he wrote on snakes and lizards of North America and helped shape a major university research collection. His work still turns up in classic zoology references and public-domain scientific writing.
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Occurrence of the Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains
by Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) Fitch, T. Paul Maslin
About the author
Born in 1909 and remembered as Thomas Paul Maslin, Jr., he was a U.S. herpetologist associated with the University of Colorado, Boulder. Sources connected him with the Department of Biology and Museum there, and the University of Colorado Museum says he was one of the major architects of its largest vertebrate collection.
Maslin published research on reptiles and amphibians, including work on garter snakes and checklists of lizards. Project Gutenberg lists Occurrence of the Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, a work he coauthored with Henry S. Fitch, and museum and taxonomy sources link his name especially with lizard research.
His standing in the field is reflected in the Herpetologists' League, which lists T. Paul Maslin as its president for 1972–1973. Taxonomic sources also show that other researchers honored him in species names, a lasting sign of his influence in herpetology.