Arthur Wilbur Henn

Arthur Wilbur Henn (March 8, 1890, in Evansville, Indiana – May 8, 1959, in Winter Park, Florida) was an American ichthyologist and herpetologist. Henn succeeded Carl H. Eigenmann to the position of Curator of Fishes at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. He was the longest-serving Treasurer in the history of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists from 1931 to 1949. He dedicated much of his life to conversation and public education.

Selected taxa author by Henn Hemigrammus barrigonae Eigenmann & Henn, 1914 Hyphessobrycon ecuadoriensis Eigenmann & Henn, 1914 Hyphessobrycon metae Eigenmann & Henn, 1914 Neoheterandria Henn, 1916 Neoheterandria elegans Henn, 1916 Phalloptychus eigenmanni Henn, 1916 Phallotorynus Henn, 1916 Phallotorynus fasciolatus Henn, 1916 Priapichthys chocoensis (Henn, 1916) Priapichthys nigroventralis (Eigenmann & Henn, 1912) Pseudopoecilia fria (Eigenmann & Henn, 1914)