Karl Patterson Schmidt (* 19 June 1890, Lake Forest, Illinois – † 26 September 1957, Chicago, Illinois), US herpetologist.

• Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Authored Taxa

• 27 taxon names authored by Karl Patterson Schmidt (List may be incomplete)

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Schmidt, K.P. 1919: Descriptions of new amphibians and reptiles from Santo Domingo and Navassa. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 41: 519–525.

• Schmidt, K.P. 1928. A New Crocodile from New Guinea. Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological series 12(14): 177–181 + 1 plate. BHL Reference page. 

• Schmidt, K.P. 1928. Reptiles collected in Salvador for the California Institute of Technology. Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Zoological series 12(16): 191–201. BHL Reference page. 

• Schmidt, K.P. 1933. A new snake (Rhynchocalamus arabicus) from Arabia. Zoological Series of Field Museum of Natural History 20: 9–10. BHL Reference page. 
• Schmidt, K.P. 1939: A new lizard from Mexico with a note on the genus Norops. Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. 24: 7–10.
• SCHMIDT, K.P. & D.D. DAVIS. 1941: Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. G.P.Putnam's Sons. New York. 365 pp.
• Schmidt, K.P. 1945: A new name for a Brazilian Mabuya. Copeia (1): 45.

Eponyms

• Aspidoscelis hyperythra schmidti Van Denburgh & Slevin, 1921
• Scincella schmidti Barbour, 1927
• Pseudoxenodon karlschmidti Pope, 1928
• Tribolonotus schmidti Burt, 1930
• Eleutherodactylus karlschmidti Grant, 1931
• Thrasops schmidti Loveridge, 1936
• Coniophanes schmidti Bailey, 1937
• Urosaurus ornatus schmidti (Mittleman, 1940)
• Batrachuperus karlschmidti Liu, 1950
• Varanus karlschmidti Mertens, 1951
• Emoia schmidti W. Brown, 1954
• Calamaria schmidti Marx & Inger, 1955
• Afrotyphlops schmidti (Laurent, 1956)
• Acanthodactylus schmidti Haas, 1957
• Hydrolaetare schmidti (Cochran & Goin, 1959)
• Lerista karlschmidti (Marx & Hosmer, 1959)
• Parahollardia schmidti Woods, 1959
• Thorius schmidti Gehlbach, 1959
• Liolaemus schmidti (Marx, 1960)
• Amphisbaena schmidti Gans, 1964

References

• Davis, D.D. 1959. Karl Patterson Schmidt, 1890-1957. Copeia 959(3): 189–192. JSTOR
• Emerson, A.E. 1958. K. P. Schmidt--Herpetologist, Ecologist, Zoogeographer. Science. New Series 127(3307): 1162–1163. JSTOR
• Goodnight, C.J., Penfound, W.T. & Hoff, C.C. 1958. Resolution of Respect: Karl Patterson Schmidt 1890-1957. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 39(1): 39–41. JSTOR