Samuel B. McDowell

Samuel Booker McDowell Jr. (1928–2014) was an American herpetologist who worked on the comparative anatomy of turtles and snakes, and studied snakes of Oceania.

McDowell earned a B.Sc. (1947) and a Ph.D. (1957) from Columbia University, and worked at the American Museum of Natural History. His zoological author abbreviation is McDowell. Several snakes are named in his honor.

Some taxa authored

 * Acrochordus arafurae
 * Emydinae
 * Pseudoxenodontinae
 * Salomonelaps

Eponyms
The following four snakes are named in honor of McDowell.
 * Hydrophis macdowelli Kharin, 1983
 * Tropidonophis mcdowelli Malnate & Underwood, 1988
 * Gerrhopilus mcdowelli (Wallach, 1996)
 * Candoia paulsoni mcdowelli H.M. Smith & Chiszar, 2001

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a different genus.