William Neil Eschmeyer (born 11 February 1939 in Knoxville, Tennessee),[1] also known as Bill Eschmeyer,[2][3] is an American ichthyologist.[1] He is the founder[4] and developer of the database and reference work Catalog of Fishes, hosted by the California Academy of Sciences and available both on-line and in print.[2]
He is Curator Emeritus at California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California,[5] and Research Associate at Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida.[3]
The following fish are named in his honor:[6]