Gustavus Wurdemann, Surveyor, Tide Expert

Gustavus Wurdemann was commissioned by the Smithsonian Institute to perform coastal surveys in Texas, Louisiana, and Florida. United States Coastal Survey. 1854-1858

List of Expeditions (Smithsonian and Non-Smithsonian), 1849-1877

He also submitted specimens to the National Anthropological Archives

United States Army Medical Museum Anatomical Section, Records Relating to Specimens Transferred to the Smithsonian […]

Dr. Gustav Wurdemann, Smithsonian collector

Catalog of Type Specimens of Recent Fishes in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 2: Blenniidae

Blennius multifilis Girard, 1858:169. [Syntypes] USNM [8168 (17)], “specimens collected at SL Joseph’s Island, Texas, by G. Wurdemann.” Remarks: Girard (1858) neither indicated the number of specimens nor a catalog number for his syntypes. Girard (1859:27-28), […]