Alpheus Hyatt* (1838-04-05 - 1902-01-15) person

Harvard graduate 1862. MIT professor of zoology and paleontology from 1870; professor at Boston University, 1877-1902. Curator at Boston Society for Natural History.

Names for this agent

  • Professor Alpheus Hyatt Jr.
  • Alpheus Hyatt (preferred)
  • A, Hyatt (second author)
  • Hyatt, A. (author)

Range of years collected is greater than 80 (1859-1981)

Collecting Event Map

  • Amphibia: Bufonidae (6 records) none known to year
  • Amphibia: Ranidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Anopla: Lineidae (1 record) in year 1874
  • Anthozoa: Actiniidae (2 records) in year 1861
  • Anthozoa: Alcyoniidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Anthozoa: Metridiidae (2 records) none known to year
  • Anthozoa: Nephtheidae (1 record) in year 1861
  • Arachnida: Sclerosomatidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Ascidiacea: Ascidiidae (5 records) in years 1860-1887
  • Ascidiacea: Didemnidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Ascidiacea: Molgulidae (1 record) in year 1874
  • Ascidiacea: Polyclinidae (2 records) in year 1875
  • Ascidiacea: Pyuridae (2 records) in year 1860
  • Ascidiacea: Styelidae (1 record) in year 1874
  • Asteroidea: Asteriidae (9 records) in years 1874-1875
  • Asteroidea: Ctenodiscidae (2 records) in year 1887
  • Asteroidea: Echinasteridae (4 records) in years 1874-1917
  • Asteroidea: Solasteridae (1 record) in year 1877
  • Aves: Alcidae (13 records) in years 1861-1863
  • Aves: Anatidae (15 records) in year 1861
  • Aves: Ardeidae (1 record) in year 1861
  • Aves: Corvidae (2 records) in year 1861
  • Aves: Emberizidae (4 records) in year 1861
  • Aves: Laridae (7 records) in year 1861
  • Aves: Phalacrocoracidae (1 record) in year 1861
  • Aves: Scolopacidae (2 records) in year 1861
  • Aves: Sulidae (2 records) in year 1861
  • Aves: [no family] (1 record) in year 1861
  • Bivalvia: Ambonychiidae (6 records) none known to year
  • Bivalvia: Anomiidae (3 records) in year 1860
  • Bivalvia: Arcidae (8 records) in year 1875
  • Bivalvia: Arcticidae (4 records) in years 1877-1879
  • Bivalvia: Astartidae (8 records) in years 1860-1879
  • Bivalvia: Aviculopectinidae (6 records) none known to year
  • Bivalvia: Buchiidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Bivalvia: Cardiidae (6 records) in years 1860-1879
  • Bivalvia: Carditidae (5 records) in years 1860-1877
  • Bivalvia: Corbulidae (1 record) in year 1875
  • Bivalvia: Crassatellidae (2 records) in year 1875
  • Bivalvia: Entoliidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Bivalvia: Gryphaeidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Bivalvia: Hiatellidae (5 records) in year 1860
  • Bivalvia: Limidae (2 records) none known to year
  • Bivalvia: Lucinidae (2 records) in year 1875
  • Bivalvia: Lyonsiidae (5 records) in years 1860-1878
  • Bivalvia: Mactridae (2 records) in year 1874
  • Bivalvia: Microdontidae (2 records) none known to year
  • Bivalvia: Modiomorphidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Bivalvia: Monotidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Bivalvia: Myidae (10 records) in years 1860-1877
  • Bivalvia: Mytilidae (11 records) in years 1860-1874
  • Bivalvia: Nuculanidae (2 records) in year 1860
  • Bivalvia: Nuculidae (9 records) in years 1860-1875
  • Bivalvia: Ostreidae (2 records) none known to year
  • Bivalvia: Pandoridae (7 records) in years 1860-1877
  • Bivalvia: Pectinidae (6 records) in years 1860-1874
  • Bivalvia: Periplomatidae (2 records) in year 1875
  • Bivalvia: Permophoridae (2 records) none known to year
  • Bivalvia: Pholadidae (2 records) in year 1860
  • Bivalvia: Pinnidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Bivalvia: Pleuromyidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Bivalvia: Pterineidae (2 records) none known to year
  • Bivalvia: Pterinopectinidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Bivalvia: Semelidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Bivalvia: Solemyidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Bivalvia: Solenidae (1 record) in year 1860
  • Bivalvia: Tancrediidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Bivalvia: Tellinidae (6 records) in years 1860-1875
  • Bivalvia: Thraciidae (2 records) in years 1874-1877
  • Bivalvia: Trigoniidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Bivalvia: Unionidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Bivalvia: Veneridae (3 records) in years 1874-1875
  • Bivalvia: Yoldiidae (19 records) in years 1860-1877
  • Bivalvia: [no family] (6 records) in year 1875
  • Cephalopoda: Arietitidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Cephalopoda: Barrandeoceratidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Cephalopoda: Belemnitidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Cephalopoda: Cladiscitidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Cephalopoda: Dawsonoceratidae (2 records) none known to year
  • Cephalopoda: Endoceratidae (10 records) none known to year
  • Cephalopoda: Engonoceratidae (3 records) none known to year
  • Cephalopoda: Estonioceratidae (2 records) none known to year
  • Cephalopoda: Geisonoceratidae (5 records) none known to year
  • Cephalopoda: Hedenstroemiidae (2 records) none known to year
  • Cephalopoda: Loliginidae (2 records) in years 1860-1875
  • Cephalopoda: Meekoceratidae (2 records) none known to year
  • Cephalopoda: Nephriticeratidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Cephalopoda: Ophidioceratidae (2 records) none known to year
  • Cephalopoda: Ormoceratidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Cephalopoda: Orthoceratidae (2 records) none known to year
  • Cephalopoda: Placenticeratidae (10 records) none known to year
  • Cephalopoda: Sphenodiscidae (3 records) none known to year
  • Cephalopoda: Tainoceratidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Cephalopoda: Tarphyceratidae (5 records) none known to year
  • Cephalopoda: Tripteroceratidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Cephalopoda: [no family] (15 records) in year 1867
  • Chondrichthyes: Squalidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Cirripedia: Balanidae (1 record) in year 1877
  • Copepoda: Caligidae (1 record) in year 1874
  • Crinoidea: Homocrinidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Crinoidea: Scytalocrinidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Demospongiae: Chalinidae (1 record) in year 1877
  • Demospongiae: Desmacididae (1 record) in year 1875
  • Demospongiae: Halichondriidae (2 records) none known to year
  • Demospongiae: Isodictyidae (1 record) in year 1875
  • Demospongiae: Polymastiidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Demospongiae: Spongiidae (3 records) none known to year
  • Demospongiae: Spongillidae (1 record) in year 1877
  • Demospongiae: Suberitidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Demospongiae: Tetillidae (1 record) in year 1875
  • Diplopoda: Euryuridae (1 record) none known to year
  • Echinoidea: Arbaciidae (1 record) in year 1874
  • Echinoidea: Echinarachniidae (1 record) in year 1875
  • Echinoidea: Schizasteridae (1 record) in year 1877
  • Echinoidea: Strongylocentrotidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Enteropneusta: Ptychoderidae (1 record) in year 1878
  • Gastropoda: Aeolidiidae (1 record) in year 1860
  • Gastropoda: Amastridae (1 record) none known to year
  • Gastropoda: Aporrhaidae (3 records) in years 1860-1877
  • Gastropoda: Bellerophontidae (2 records) none known to year
  • Gastropoda: Buccinidae (18 records) in years 1860-1897
  • Gastropoda: Bullidae (1 record) in year 1860
  • Gastropoda: Calliostomatidae (1 record) in year 1877
  • Gastropoda: Calyptraeidae (10 records) in years 1874-1878
  • Gastropoda: Cancellariidae (4 records) in years 1877-1879
  • Gastropoda: Cavoliniidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Gastropoda: Cerithiidae (3 records) none known to year
  • Gastropoda: Cerithiopsidae (8 records) in years 1874-1875
  • Gastropoda: Columbellidae (7 records) in years 1874-1877
  • Gastropoda: Crepidulidae (2 records) in year 1860
  • Gastropoda: Cylichnidae (2 records) in year 1877
  • Gastropoda: Epitoniidae (3 records) in years 1860-1877
  • Gastropoda: Eulimidae (1 record) in year 1875
  • Gastropoda: Fissurellidae (1 record) in year 1877
  • Gastropoda: Limacidae (2 records) in year 1882
  • Gastropoda: Littorinidae (7 records) in years 1860-1878
  • Gastropoda: Mangeliidae (2 records) in year 1877
  • Gastropoda: Margaritidae (5 records) in years 1860-1877
  • Gastropoda: Muricidae (6 records) in years 1860-1875
  • Gastropoda: Nassariidae (6 records) in years 1874-1958
  • Gastropoda: Naticidae (19 records) in years 1860-1879
  • Gastropoda: Patellidae (1 record) in year 1860
  • Gastropoda: Pleurotomariidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Gastropoda: Pyramidellidae (3 records) in year 1874
  • Gastropoda: Solariellidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Gastropoda: Turridae (1 record) in year 1874
  • Gastropoda: Turritellidae (4 records) in year 1875
  • Gastropoda: Velutinidae (1 record) in year 1877
  • Gastropoda: [no family] (5 records) in year 1860
  • Gymnolaemata: Alcyonidiidae (2 records) none known to year
  • Gymnolaemata: Bryocryptellidae (1 record) in year 1875
  • Gymnolaemata: Bugulidae (4 records) in years 1874-1875
  • Gymnolaemata: Calloporidae (2 records) in years 1868-1869
  • Gymnolaemata: Cribrilinidae (2 records) in year 1868
  • Gymnolaemata: Eucrateidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Gymnolaemata: Paludicellidae (1 record) in year 1865
  • Gymnolaemata: Smittinidae (1 record) in year 1879
  • Holothuroidea: Caudinidae (1 record) in year 1877
  • Holothuroidea: Chiridotidae (2 records) in year 1887
  • Holothuroidea: Cucumariidae (1 record) in year 1879
  • Holothuroidea: Psolidae (1 record) in year 1908
  • Holothuroidea: Synaptidae (2 records) none known to year
  • Hydrozoa: Aulaceridae (1 record) none known to year
  • Hydrozoa: Campanulariidae (2 records) in year 1874
  • Hydrozoa: Clavidae (1 record) in year 1878
  • Hydrozoa: Halecidae (1 record) in year 1875
  • Insecta: Formicidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Insecta: Lycaenidae (1 record) in year 1981
  • Irregulares: Archaeocyathidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Malacostraca: Ampeliscidae (9 records) in years 1874-1878
  • Malacostraca: Ampithoidae (3 records) in year 1874
  • Malacostraca: Aoridae (7 records) in years 1874-1878
  • Malacostraca: Cambaridae (4 records) in year 1859
  • Malacostraca: Cancridae (7 records) in years 1874-1875
  • Malacostraca: Caprellidae (3 records) in years 1875-1877
  • Malacostraca: Corophiidae (9 records) in years 1874-1878
  • Malacostraca: Crangonidae (2 records) in year 1875
  • Malacostraca: Diastylidae (6 records) in years 1877-1878
  • Malacostraca: Eusiridae (2 records) in year 1877
  • Malacostraca: Gammaridae (5 records) in years 1874-1878
  • Malacostraca: Haustoriidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Malacostraca: Hippolytidae (5 records) in year 1877
  • Malacostraca: Hyperiidae (2 records) in years 1874-1877
  • Malacostraca: Idoteidae (3 records) in year 1878
  • Malacostraca: Lysianassidae (1 record) in year 1877
  • Malacostraca: Majidae (3 records) in year 1874
  • Malacostraca: Melphidippidae (1 record) in year 1877
  • Malacostraca: Ocypodidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Malacostraca: Paguridae (31 records) in years 1874-1879
  • Malacostraca: Palaemonidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Malacostraca: Pandalidae (4 records) in years 1873-1878
  • Malacostraca: Parthenopidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Malacostraca: Pinnotheridae (1 record) in year 1874
  • Malacostraca: Pleustidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Malacostraca: Portunidae (1 record) in year 1860
  • Malacostraca: Stegocephalidae (4 records) in year 1877
  • Malacostraca: Talitridae (2 records) in year 1874
  • Malacostraca: Thoridae (1 record) in year 1908
  • Malacostraca: Xanthidae (5 records) in years 1874-1875
  • Malacostraca: [no family] (21 records) in years 1860-1878
  • Mammalia: Cricetidae (5 records) in year 1860
  • Mammalia: Didelphidae (2 records) none known to year
  • Mammalia: Mephitidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Mammalia: Mustelidae (1 record) in year 1860
  • Mammalia: Phocidae (7 records) none known to year
  • Mammalia: Phocoenidae (2 records) none known to year
  • Mammalia: Rhinocerotidae (3 records) none known to year
  • Mammalia: Sciuridae (1 record) in year 1860
  • Mammalia: Soricidae (1 record) in year 1860
  • Mammalia: Talpidae (2 records) in year 1860
  • Mammalia: Vespertilionidae (8 records) in year 1874
  • Mammalia: Ziphiidae (1 record) in year 1898
  • Mammalia: [no family] (27 records) none known to year
  • Oligochaeta: [no family] (2 records) in year 1877
  • Osteichthyes: Amblyopsidae (2 records) in year 1859
  • Osteichthyes: Ammodytidae (5 records) in years 1861-1875
  • Osteichthyes: Anguillidae (3 records) in years 1860-1874
  • Osteichthyes: Atherinopsidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Osteichthyes: Balistidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Osteichthyes: Belonidae (1 record) in year 1874
  • Osteichthyes: Carangidae (2 records) in years 1874-1875
  • Osteichthyes: Catostomidae (4 records) in year 1859
  • Osteichthyes: Centrarchidae (3 records) in year 1860
  • Osteichthyes: Clupeidae (1 record) in year 1871
  • Osteichthyes: Cottidae (5 records) in years 1861-1876
  • Osteichthyes: Cyclopteridae (1 record) in year 1861
  • Osteichthyes: Cyprinidae (5 records) in year 1859
  • Osteichthyes: Fundulidae (3 records) in year 1874
  • Osteichthyes: Gadidae (2 records) in year 1861
  • Osteichthyes: Gasterosteidae (5 records) in years 1861-1880
  • Osteichthyes: Ictaluridae (1 record) in year 1860
  • Osteichthyes: Labridae (2 records) in year 1861
  • Osteichthyes: Monacanthidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Osteichthyes: Moronidae (1 record) in year 1860
  • Osteichthyes: Osmeridae (3 records) in year 1861
  • Osteichthyes: Paralichthyidae (1 record) in year 1874
  • Osteichthyes: Percidae (2 records) in years 1859-1860
  • Osteichthyes: Pholidae (2 records) in year 1861
  • Osteichthyes: Phycidae (1 record) in year 1861
  • Osteichthyes: Pleuronectidae (4 records) in year 1861
  • Osteichthyes: Salmonidae (1 record) in year 1861
  • Osteichthyes: Sciaenidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Osteichthyes: Scorpaenidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Osteichthyes: Stichaeidae (2 records) in year 1861
  • Osteichthyes: Triglidae (2 records) in year 1874
  • Osteichthys: Batrachoididae (1 record) in year 1874
  • Osteichthys: Zoarcidae (1 record) in year 1879
  • Phylactolaemata: Cristatellidae (1 record) in year 1864
  • Phylactolaemata: Fredericellidae (3 records) in years 1864-1865
  • Phylactolaemata: Plumatellidae (5 records) in years 1864-1865
  • Polychaeta: Aphroditidae (1 record) in year 1877
  • Polychaeta: Eunicidae (1 record) in year 1877
  • Polychaeta: Euphrosinidae (1 record) in year 1877
  • Polychaeta: Flabelligeridae (3 records) in year 1877
  • Polychaeta: Glyceridae (3 records) in years 1874-1877
  • Polychaeta: Lumbrineridae (6 records) in years 1874-1877
  • Polychaeta: Maldanidae (5 records) in years 1877-1878
  • Polychaeta: Nephtyidae (6 records) in years 1874-1878
  • Polychaeta: Nereididae (10 records) in years 1860-1878
  • Polychaeta: Oenonidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Polychaeta: Onuphidae (4 records) in years 1874-1877
  • Polychaeta: Opheliidae (3 records) in years 1874-1877
  • Polychaeta: Orbiniidae (1 record) in year 1874
  • Polychaeta: Pectinariidae (3 records) in years 1875-1878
  • Polychaeta: Phyllodocidae (2 records) in year 1874
  • Polychaeta: Polynoidae (16 records) in years 1860-1878
  • Polychaeta: Sabellidae (4 records) in year 1877
  • Polychaeta: Spionidae (3 records) in years 1877-1878
  • Polychaeta: Spirorbidae (2 records) in years 1874-1879
  • Polychaeta: Sternaspidae (1 record) in year 1877
  • Polychaeta: Terebellidae (5 records) in years 1874-1877
  • Polychaeta: Trichobranchidae (2 records) in year 1877
  • Polyplacophora: Chaetopleuridae (2 records) none known to year
  • Polyplacophora: Ischnochitonidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Polyplacophora: Tonicellidae (1 record) in year 1860
  • Pycnogonida: Nymphonidae (5 records) in years 1877-1878
  • Pycnogonida: Phoxichilidiidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Reptilia: Colubridae (7 records) in year 1859
  • Reptilia: Emydidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Reptilia: Ichthyosauridae (1 record) none known to year
  • Reptilia: Teiidae (1 record) in year 1859
  • Scaphopoda: Dentaliidae (2 records) in year 1877
  • Sipunculidea: Phascolionidae (3 records) in years 1874-1877
  • Stenolaemata: Lichenoporidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Trilobita: Asaphidae (11 records) in year 1867
  • Trilobita: Bathyuridae (8 records) none known to year
  • Trilobita: Calymenidae (16 records) in year 1867
  • Trilobita: Coosellidae (3 records) none known to year
  • Trilobita: Encrinuridae (1 record) none known to year
  • Trilobita: Harpetidae (1 record) in year 1867
  • Trilobita: Homalonotidae (1 record) in year 1867
  • Trilobita: Illaenidae (4 records) in year 1867
  • Trilobita: Leiostegiidae (2 records) none known to year
  • Trilobita: Nileidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Trilobita: Olenidae (2 records) none known to year
  • Trilobita: Pliomeridae (1 record) in year 1867
  • Trilobita: Raphiophoridae (8 records) in year 1876
  • Trilobita: Remopleurididae (2 records) none known to year
  • Trilobita: Trinucleidae (1 record) none known to year
  • Trilobita: Zacanthoididae (1 record) none known to year
  • : Bdellouridae (2 records) in year 1878
  • : [no family] (194 records) in years 1859-1879

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