Vivian Frederick Maynard FitzSimons

Vivian Frederick Maynard FitzSimons (* 7 February 1901, Pitermaritzburg – † 1 July 1975, Pretoria), South African herpetologist.

• Son of Frederick William FitzSimons.
• Transvaal Museum (1924–1966)

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• 56 taxon names authored by Vivian Frederick Maynard FitzSimons

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• 2 eponyms of Vivian Frederick Maynard FitzSimons

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• FitzSimons, V. 1930. Descriptions of new South African Reptilia and Batrachia, with distribution records of allied species in the Transvaal Museum Collection. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 14(1): 20–48. hdl: 10520/AJA00411752_640 Reference page. 

• FitzSimons, V. 1932. Preliminary description of new forms of South African Reptilia and Amphibia, from the Vernay-Lang Kalahari Expedition, 1930. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 15(1): 35–40. hdl: 10520/AJA00411752_617 Reference page. 

• FitzSimons, V. 1933. Descriptions of five new lizards from the Transvaal and Southern Rhodesia. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 15(2): 273–280. hdl: 10520/AJA00411752_611 Reference page. 

• FitzSimons, V.F.M. 1935. Notes on a collection of reptiles and amphibians made in the Southern Kalahari, Bushmanland, and Great and Little Namaqualand. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 17: 519-550.

• FitzSimons, V. 1938. Transvaal Museum expedition to South-West Africa and Little Namaqualand, May to August 1937. Reptiles and amphibians. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 19(2): 153–209. hdl: 10520/AJA00411752_496 Reference page. 

• FitzSimons, V. 1941. Descriptions of some new lizards from South Africa and a frog from Southern Rhodesia. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 20(1): 273–291. Reference page. 

• FitzSimons, V. 1943. The lizards of South Africa. Transvaal Museum Memoirs 1: 1–528. Reference page. 

• FitzSimons, V. 1947. Descriptions of new species and subspecies of reptiles and amphibians from Natal, together with notes on some other little known species. Annals of the Natal Museum 11: 111–137. Reference page. 

• FitzSimons, V. 1953. A new genus of Gerrhosaurid from Southern Angola. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 22(2): 215–217. hdl: 10520/AJA00411752_384 Reference page. 

• FitzSimons, V. 1958. A new Cordylus from Gorongoza, Mocambique. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 14: 351–353. Reference page. 

• FitzSimons, V.F.M. 1962. Snakes of southern Africa. Purnell and Sons: Cape Town. 423 pp. Reference page.