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{{Short description|American zoologist and herpetologist}}
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'''Rufus Wade Fox Jr.''' (June 2, 1920 – September 20, 1964), was an American [[zoologist]] and [[herpetologist]] from the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. He specialized in the anatomy of [[snake]]s and the [[systematics]] of the western [[garter snake]]s.

==Biography==
Wade Fox was born on June 2, 1920, in [[Hilton, Virginia]].

He graduated from the [[University of North Carolina]] in 1943 and then earned a Master's (1946) and doctoral degree at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], working as  Curatorial Assistant of in the [[Museum of Vertebrate Zoology]] from 1943 to 1949, and earning a PhD under [[Robert C. Stebbins]] in 1950.<ref name=Dessauer1965/> His dissertation topic was "Biology of the Garter Snakes of the San Francisco Bay Region".<ref name=rodriguez-robles/> Later he became president of Herpetologists' League and an editor of the journal ''[[Copeia]]''.<ref name=beolens/>

He named several [[garter snake]] (''Thamnophis'') subspecies, including ''Thamnophis elegans terrestris'', ''Thamnophis elegans aquaticus'' (now a synonym of ''T. atratus atratus'') and ''Thamnophis sirtalis fitchi''.<ref name=rodriguez-robles/> He is commemorated in the name of the [[Fox's mountain meadow snake]] (''Adelophis foxi'' ).<ref name=beolens/>

Wade Fox died of a heart attack following heart surgery on September 20, 1964.<ref name=Dessauer1965/><ref name=beolens/>

==Partial bibliography==
*{{cite journal|author=Fox W|year=1951|title=Relationships among the garter snakes of the ''Thamnophis elegans'' rassenkreis|journal=Univ. California Publ. Zool.|volume=50|pages=485–529}}
*{{cite journal|author=Fox W|year=1951|title=The status of the gartersnake, ''Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia''|journal=Copeia|volume=1951|issue=4|pages=257–267|doi=10.2307/1438309|jstor=1438309}}
*{{cite journal|author=Fox W|year=1954|title=Genetic and environmental variation in the timing of the reproductive cycles of male garter snakes|journal=J. Morphol.|volume=95|issue=3|pages=415–450|doi=10.1002/jmor.1050950303|s2cid=84375536}}

==References==
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<ref name=rodriguez-robles>{{cite journal|title=Brief history of herpetology in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, with a list of type specimens of recent amphibians and reptiles|journal=University of California Publications in Zoology|volume=131|pages=1–119|year=2003|vauthors=Rodríguez-Robles JA, Good DA, [[David B. Wake|Wake DB]] |issn=0068-6506|url=http://cro.ots.ac.cr/rdmcnfs/datasets/biblioteca/pdfs/nbina-7280.pdf#page=102}}</ref>
<ref name=beolens>{{cite book|vauthors=Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M |year=2011|title=The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles|location=Baltimore|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp.|isbn=978-1-4214-0135-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ovZoFyLhzkC&pg=PA93}} ("Fox, W.", p. 93).</ref>

<ref name=Dessauer1965>{{cite journal|author=Dessauer HC|year=1965|title=Wade Fox, Jr., 1920–1964|journal=Copeia|volume=1965|issue=1|page=123|jstor=1441262}}</ref>
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[[Category:American herpetologists]]
[[Category:1920 births]]
[[Category:1964 deaths]]
[[Category:University of Southern California faculty]]
[[Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni]]
[[Category:University of North Carolina alumni]]
[[Category:Louisiana State University faculty]]
[[Category:People from Scott County, Virginia]]
[[Category:Scientists from California]]
[[Category:Scientists from Virginia]]
[[Category:20th-century American zoologists]]


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