Walter Medley Tattersall (November 8, 1882 - October 5, 1948) was a British zoologist and marine biologist, famous for his study of mysids. November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 53 days remaining. ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Zoology (Greek zoon = animal and logos = word) is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. ... Marine biology is the study of animal and plant life within waterbound ecosystems. ... Any of various small, shrimplike, chiefly marine crustaceans of the order Mysidacea, the females of which carry their eggs in a pouch beneath the thorax. ...

He was born in Liverpool, the eldest son of a draper's family. He studied zoology at the University of Liverpool, where he was graduated in 1901. Subsequently, he worked as a naturalist for the Irish Fisheries Department under Ernest W. L. Holt, where he began his studies of crustaceans. In 1909 he became the director of the Manchester Museum and also worked as a tutor in marine biology at the universities of Manchester and Sheffield. In 1911, he obtained the doctoral degree of Sc.D. Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough on Merseyside in north west England, on the north side of the Mersey estuary. ... Zoology (Greek zoon = animal and logos = word) is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. ... The University of Liverpool is a university in the city of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. ... 1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Classes Class Branchiopoda Subclass Phyllopoda Subclass Sarsostraca Class Remipedia Order Enantiopoda Order Nectiopoda Class Cephalocarida Order Brachypoda Class Maxillopoda Subclass Mystacocarida Subclass Copepoda Subclass Branchiura Subclass Pentastomida Subclass Tantulocarida Subclass Thecostraca Infraclass Cirripedia Class Ostracoda Order Metacopina Subclass Myodocopa Subclass Podocopa Class Malacostraca Subclass Eumalacostraca Subclass Hoplocarida Subclass Phyllocarida The... 1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Manchester Museum is owned by the University of Manchester. ... Marine biology is the study of animal and plant life within waterbound ecosystems. ... The University of Manchester in Manchester, England is a university that was formed from the merger of the Victoria University of Manchester (commonly known as the University of Manchester before the merger) and UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) on 1 October 2004. ... The University Of Sheffield. ... 1911 was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... Sc. ...

During World War I, he served as a private in Flanders and France, where he was wounded and gassed in 1918. In the middle of the war, in 1916, he married Olive Selden Attride. World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ... A private is a military soldier of the lowest military rank (equivalent to Nato Rank Grade OR-1). ... Flanders (Flemish, Fleming) (Dutch: Vlaanderen (Vlaams, Vlaming), French: Flandre(s), (flamand, flamand), German: Flandern, (flämisch, Flame) has two main designations: a constituent community of the federal Belgian state through its social and political organisations, and through the institutions of the Flemish Community (with its own Flemish government and Flemish... 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ...

In 1922, he was appointed professor at the University of Cardiff, a post he would hold for the rest of his life. He was highly respected as a teacher in zoology and marine biology and also as a field researcher and taxonomist. Tattersall has an impressive publication record; he is the taxonomic authority for a large number of crustaceans, in particular of mysids and euphausiids. Most of the illustrations in his publications were drawn by his wife Olive. 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Cardiff University (Welsh: Prifysgol Caerdydd) is a university in Cardiff. ... Any of various small, shrimplike, chiefly marine crustaceans of the order Mysidacea, the females of which carry their eggs in a pouch beneath the thorax. ... Euphausiid is the scientific name for shrimp-like marine invertebrates, important organisms of the plankton (zooplankton), also called krill. ...

Selected works

• Tattersall, W. M. & Tattersall, O. S.: British Mysidacea, Pisces Conservation Ltd. ISBN 1-904-69009-2.

References

• Kemp, S. W.: Walter M. Tattersall, in Crustaceana 38, pp. 311 – 320; 1980.