Joseph Curtis Moore

Joseph Curtis Moore
Born1914 (1914)
Died1995 (aged 80–81)
Known forTaxonomy of rodents and beaked whales
Scientific career
FieldsZoology
WorkplacesField Museum of Natural History
Moore

Joseph Curtis Moore (1914–1995) was an American zoologist specializing in rodents and beaked whales. He worked at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

Career

Moore is known for describing the beaked whale species Mesoplodon carlhubbsi in his 1963 paper Recognizing certain species of beaked whales of the Pacific Ocean, published in The American Midland Naturalist (vol. 70: 396–428).

Selected publications

Abbreviation

The abbreviation Moore is used to indicate Joseph Curtis Moore as the authority for zoological species descriptions.

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