Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmer

29 Sept 1873 – 8 Nov 1950

[To be distinguished from modern science writer Carl Zimmer] Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmer was a German zoologist specialising in crustaceans, especially the order Cumacea. The crustacean genus Zimmeriana is named after him. He is the taxonomic authority for the krill species Euphausia hanseni.

• Cumaceans of the American Atlantic boreal coast region (Crustacea, Peracarida)
• Die Cumaceen der "Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition"
• Die nordischen Schizopoden
• Anleitung zur Beobachtung der vogelwelt
• Die arktischen Schizopoden