Donn E. Rosen

Donn Eric Rosen (1929-1986) was a member of the staff of the American Museum of Natural History. He was a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.

Family Born to immigrants Irwin Rosen (b. 1885) and Anita Gerber Rosen (b. 1906), Rosen has an older brother: Charles Welles. Both his parents were born in Russia. Irwin came to the United States in 1889 and had a career in architecture. Anita arrived in the United States prior to 1920. and they had three sons, one of whom, Philip Clark Rosen (1955-2020) was a herpetologist and ecologist, who spent many years studying the Sonoran Desert. (Adrianichthyidae) Brachyrhaphis roseni W. A. Bussing, 1988, (Poeciliidae) Curimata roseni Vari, 1984, (Curimatidae) The eel Meadia roseni H. K. Mok, C. Y. Lee & H. J. Chan, 1991 is named after him, (Synaphobranchidae) Rakthamichthys roseni (R. M. Bailey & Gans, 1998) (Synbranchidae) Sternarchorhynchus roseni Mago-Leccia, 1994 (Rosen's tube-snouted ghost knifefish) (Apteronotidae) Xiphophorus roseni M. K. Meyer & Wischnath, 1981 (Poeciliidae)