Thomas Elliot Bowman III

Thomas Elliot Bowman III (October 21, 1918 – August 10, 1995) was an American carcinologist best known for his studies of isopods and copepods.

Bowman was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Kent School in Kent, Connecticut in 1937 and Harvard College in 1941. During the Second World War, he spent four years in the U.S. Army, gaining a degree in veterinary medicine from the University of Pennsylvania. Afterwards, he went to the University of California, Berkeley, where he gained a master's degree, and then worked at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he gained a Ph.D. (awarded by the University of California, Los Angeles).

During his career, Bowman wrote 163 papers, using a style which has been likened to that of Ernest Hemingway and Albert Camus. As well as describing 116 new species (including 55 isopods, 28 copepods, one suctorian and one chaetognath), 16 genera and one order, Mictacea, Bowman also produced significant works on the structural homology of the telson and the evolution of stalked eyes.

Taxa
Several taxonomic names recognise Thomas Bowman:
 * Apseudes bowmani Gutu & Iliffe, 1989
 * Bahalana bowmani Ortiz & Lenana, 1997
 * Cymbasoma bowmani Suárez-Morales & Gasca, 1998
 * Halicyclops bowmani Da Rocha & Iliffe, 1993
 * Hansenium bowmani (Kensley, 1984)

Taxa named by Bowman include:
 * Antrolana Bowman, 1964
 * Antrolana lira Bowman, 1964
 * Bermudalana aruboides Bowman & Iliffe, 1983
 * Dolobrotus mardeni T. E. Bowman, 1974
 * Lirceus usdagalun Holsinger & Bowman, 1973
 * Mexilana saluposi Bowman, 1975
 * Mexistenasellus nulemex Bowman, 1982
 * Mictacea Bowman, Garner, Hessler, Iliffe & Sanders, 1985
 * Mictocarididae Bowman & Iliffe, 1985
 * Mictocaris Bowman & Iliffe, 1985
 * Mictocaris halope Bowman & Iliffe, 1985
 * Remasellus Bowman & Sket, 1985
 * Sphaerolana karenae Rodriguez-Almaraz & Bowman, 1995
 * Thermosphaeroma cavicauda Bowman, 1985
 * Thermosphaeroma macrura Bowman, 1985
 * Thermosphaeroma milleri Bowman, 1981
 * Thermosphaeroma smithi Bowman, 1981


 * Acrocalanus andersoni
 * Anaponoidae
 * Anilocra monoma
 * Annina fustis
 * Anopsilana crenata
 * Anopsilana lingua
 * Antromysis merista
 * Antromysis peckorum
 * Antromysis reddelli
 * Asellus alaskensis
 * Asellus kinki
 * Bahalana mayana
 * Bopyrella harmopleon
 * Boreomysis oparva
 * Bythocaris cryonesus
 * Caecidotea beattyi
 * Caecidotea bilineata
 * Caecidotea carolinensis i97
 * Caecidotea filicispeluncae
 * Caecidotea lesliei
 * Caecidotea misterae
 * Caecidotea rotunda
 * Caecidotea sequoiae
 * Caecidotea whitei
 * Caecidoteachiapas
 * Calanopia biloba
 * Calanus lighti
 * Calasellus longus
 * Candacia paenetongimana
 * Catoessa gruneri
 * Ceratolana papuae
 * Chiridotea coeca
 * Cirolana narica
 * Cithadius cyathurae
 * Clausocalanus citerIf
 * Ctenocalanus heronae
 * Cyathura specus
 * Cymodetta gambosa
 * Deltamysis holmquistae
 * Dendrosomides lucicutiae
 * Etlastenasellus confinis
 * Excirolana kumari
 * Glossobius anctus
 * Halosbaena fortunata
 * Haptolana trichostoma
 * Heteromysoides dennisi
 * Hyperia crassa
 * Hyperia leptura
 * Hyperietta parvaceps
 * Hyperietta stebbingi
 * Hyperietta stephenseni
 * Hyperietta
 * Hyperionyx
 * Jorymo sawayah
 * Lestrigonus shoemakeri
 * Lirceolus hardeni
 * Lirceolus
 * Lironeca orinoco
 * Lironeca puhi
 * Lucifer chacei
 * Lycaeopsoidea
 * Mastigodiaptomus nesus
 * Mexistenasellus colei
 * Miostephos cubrobex
 * Mysidium rickettsi
 * Mysidopsis almyra
 * Mysidopsis Ifurca
 * Nerocila arres
 * Nerocila kisra
 * Nerocila sigani
 * Nitokra sphaeromata
 * Notodiaptomus caperatus
 * Notodiaptomus venezolanus deeveyorum
 * Oithona bjornbergae
 * Oithona colcarva
 * Oithona fonsecae
 * Orchestia vaggala
 * Paracalanus quasimodoId
 * Paracymothoa tholoceps
 * Paraspadella anops
 * Paroithona flemingeri
 * Pelaega lamnae
 * Physocephalata
 * Primno brevidens
 * Primno johnsoni
 * Pseudocyclops cokeri
 * Pseudocyclops paulus
 * Pseudocyclops rostratus
 * Pseudocyclops rubrocintus
 * Pseudodiaptomus cokeri
 * Renocila heterozota
 * Ronalea
 * Salmasellus steganothrix
 * Spelaeomysis cardisomae
 * Spelaeomysis olivae
 * Spelaeomysis villalobosi
 * Speocirolana endeca
 * Speocirolana pubens
 * Speocirotana hardeni
 * Speonebalia cannoni
 * Sphaeronella hebe
 * Sphaeronellopsis dikothrix
 * Sphaeronellopsis monothrix
 * Spinoscina
 * Stygiomysis clarki
 * Stygiomysis major
 * Syncyamus pseudorcae
 * Tisbe monozota
 * Tortanus compernis
 * Tortanus scaphus
 * Tortanus tophuse
 * Tridentella recava
 * Tulumella unidens
 * Xilitloniscus