Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmer
Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmer was a German zoologist specialising in crustaceans, especially the order Cumacea.
He studied zoology at the universities of Strasbourg, Munich and Breslau, receiving his doctorate in 1897. In 1912 he was appointed second director at the Zoological State Collection of Munich, where in 1917 he became director. From 1924 to 1937 he was a full professor and director of the zoological museum in Berlin.
The crustacean genus Zimmeriana commemorates his name, as do species with the epithet of zimmeri, including three species frogs. He is the taxonomic authority for the krill species Euphausia hanseni.- Die Cumaceen der "Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition", 1908 - Cumacea from the German Deepsea-Expedition.
- Südwestafrikanische Schizopoden, 1912 - Southwest African Schizopoda.
- Untersuchungen an diastyliden , 1930 - Research of Diastylidae.
- "California Crustacea of the order Cumacea"; translated into English, 1937.
- Cumacea, 1941.
- "Cumaceans of the American Atlantic boreal coast region "; translated into English, 1979.
