Sharks: An Eponym Dictionary

Sharks: An Eponym Dictionary published by UK-based Pelagic Publishing provides insights and origins on the naming of sharks, rays, skates and Chimeras, covering 1,577 species names in all. The dictionary details whom the species are named after and also the “authors of the original descriptions of them” (Introduction). Included in many of the descriptions is a mini-biography that reveals more details about the entry. The Watkins and Beolens state in the Introduction that their aim is to ensure the reader understand how to read the entries of the species and how the species are named. For example, common names of...