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)
- student of Louis Agassiz
- William Otis Crosby student of Alpheus Hyatt
- IZ (338 records) in years 1859-1917
- IP (312 records) in years 1862-1876
- Mala (275 records) in years 1860-1958
- Ich (83 records) in years 1859-1880
- Mamm (53 records) in years 1860-1898
- Orn (48 records) in years 1861-1863
- Herp (16 records) in year 1859
- VP (9 records) none known to year
- Ent (2 records) in year 1981
- All
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
- Not a preparator of any material in MCZbase
- 1 identifications for 1 Malacology cataloged items
- 4 identifications for 4 Mammalogy cataloged items
- 242 identifications for 239 Invertebrate Zoology cataloged items
- 1045 identifications for 765 Invertebrate Paleontology cataloged items
- 2 identifications for 2 Ichthyology cataloged items
- sex for 4 Mammalogy specimens
- Hyatt, A. 1894. Phylogeny of an acquired characteristic. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 32(143):349–647. 81 citations
- Hyatt, A. 1900. Cephalopoda. Pp. 526-526. In Zittel-Eastman Textbook of Palaeontology. Macmillan, London and New York.
- Hyatt, A. 1889. Genesis of the Arietidae. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 16(3):1–238. 171 citations
- Hyatt, A. 1889. Genesis of the Arietidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 26(673):1–221. 1 citation
- Hyatt, A. 1872. Fossil cephalopods of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 3(5):91–111. 2 citations
- Hyatt, A. 1866. The fossil cephalopods of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 1(5):75–102. 7 citations
- Hyatt, A. 1875. XIV. Revision of the North American Poriferae; with remarks upon foreign species part I. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 2:399–408. 13 citations
- Hyatt, A. and H. A. Pilsbry. 1911. Vol. XXI Achatinellidae (Amastrinae). Pp. 93-327. In Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic: with illustrations of the species. Second series, Pulmonata. George Washington Tyron. 234 pp. 36 citations
- Hyatt, A. and J. P. Smith. 1905. Triassic cephalopod genera of America. U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 40:1–394. doi: 10.3133/pp40. 176 citations
- Hyatt, A. 1893. Carboniferous cephalopods, second paper. Geological Survey of Texas 14:379–474. 24 citations
- Hyatt, A. 1903. Pseudoceratites of the Cretaceous. Monographs of the USGS 44:1–245. 119 citations
- Hyatt, A., H. A. Pilsbry, and C. M. Cooke. 1911. Manual of conchology, structural and systematic: with illustrations of the species. Vol. XXI. Achatinellidae (Amastrinae). Vol. 21. (Series2). Conchological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 387 pp. 19 citations
- Hyatt, A. 1891. Carboniferous cephalopods. Geological Survey of Texas 2:329–356. 2 citations
- Hyatt, A. 1875. The Jurassic and Cretaceous ammonites collected in South America by Prof. James Orton, with an appendix upon the Cretaceous ammonites of Prof. Hart's collection. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 17:365–372. 6 citations
- Hyatt, A. 1877. XVIII. Revision of the North American Poriferae; with remarks upon foreign species part II. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. 2, Part 4.(5) Boston Society of Natural History. p. 481–553. 202 citations
- Hyatt, A. 1883. Genera of fossil cephalopods. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 22:253–338. 2 citations