Ethelwynn Trewavas was an ichthyologist at the British Museum of Natural History.
14 Facts About Ethelwynn Trewavas
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Ethelwynn Trewavas was known for her work on the families Cichlidae and Sciaenidae.
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Ethelwynn Trewavas worked with Charles Tate Regan, another ichthyologist and taxonomist.
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Ethelwynn Trewavas received her bachelor's degree and Board of Education Certificate in Teaching in 1921 from Reading University, and then worked as a teacher before being employed by the King's College of Household and Social Science as a part-time demonstrator, spending most of her time on research.
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Ethelwynn Trewavas was taught by Dr Nellie B Eales when associated with the Freshwater Biological Association.
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Ethelwynn Trewavas met Charles Regan and was employed by him as his assistant until hired by the British Museum as Assistant Keeper in 1935.
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Ethelwynn Trewavas was appointed Deputy Keeper of Zoology in 1958, and retired in 1961.
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Ethelwynn Trewavas served as the senior scientist in the Fish Section of the British Museum for almost 50 years, and was known internationally as an authority on several diverse groups of fishes.
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Ethelwynn Trewavas was best known for her work describing African Rift lake cichlids, but she published extensively on other groups as well.
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Ethelwynn Trewavas used laboratory study and extended field trips to research her current areas of study, and often relied on interviews with local people to understand the behaviours, forms and food potential of fishes.
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One example of the influence of Regan and Trewavas is that of the currently named genus categories of Lake Malawi mbuna, two are attributed to Regan and six to Trewavas.
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Ethelwynn Trewavas was awarded the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London in 1968, and elected as a Fellow of the society in 1991.
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Ethelwynn Trewavas was elected an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in 1946, and awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by Stirling University in 1986.
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Many fellow ichthyologists honoured Ethelwynn Trewavas by naming newly discovered species after her.