Robert William Hayman

Robert William Hayman (1905 – 1985) was a British zoologist.

Biography Hayman served as the head of the Mammal Section at the Natural History Museum, London from 1921 to 1968. He published several significant works on African bats and identified a number of mammal genera and species, contributing to the advancement of mammalian taxonomy.

Taxa described

Delanymys brooksi Glauconycteris machadoi Hipposideros jonesi Liberiictis kuhni Micropteropus intermedius Neopteryx frosti Otomops secundus Paraxerus cooperi Paraxerus vincenti Pelomys hopkinsi Rhinopoma macinnesi Steatomys jacksoni

Species named in his honour Dendromus haymani (Hatt, 1934)

Selected publications Hayman et al. (1966). The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi. Annales du Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium, No. 154. Hayman and Hill (1971). Order Chiroptera. In The Mammals of Africa: An Identification Manual. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.