Frederick Bayer

Frederick Merkle Bayer (October 31, 1921 — October 2, 2007) was an American curator emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History and a marine biologist who specialized in the study of soft corals.

Early life and education Frederick Bayer was born on Halloween night 1921, in Asbury Park, New Jersey, Bayer also spent several months doing field research throughout the rest of Micronesia. Bayericerithium Petuch, 2001 Lyria cordis Bayer, 1971 Peristarium Bayer, 1971 Peristarium aurora (Bayer, 1971) Peristarium electra (Bayer, 1971) Peristarium merope (Bayer, 1971) Perotrochus amabilis (Bayer, 1963) Perotrochus lucaya Bayer, 1965 Scaphella evelina Bayer, 1971 Siphonochelus tityrus (Bayer, 1971) Thelyssa Bayer, 1971 Thelyssa callisto Bayer, 1971 Volutomitra erebus Bayer, 1971 Volutomitra persephone Bayer, 1971

bivalves: Amphichama inezae (F. M. Bayer, 1943)