Dr. Metcalf was Curator of Mollusks in the Laboratory for Environmental Biology until 2010 and on retirement was honored by the title of Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso. He passed away in his home state of Kansas in January of 2016.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 1964, majoring in Zoology (with specialization in ichthyology) and minoring in geology.
Although originally trained as an ichthyologist, research over the past 25 years has been with Southwestern land snails, both living and Quaternary fossils.
Publications:
Metcalf, A. L. 1959. Fishes of Chautauqua, Cowley and Elk counties, Kansas. University Kansas Publication Museum of Natural History, 11:345-400.
Distler, D. A. 1961. New distributional records for two species of crayfish. Transactions Kansas Academy Science, 64:353-356.
Deacon, J. E., and A. L. Metcalf. Fishes of the Wakarusa River in Kansas. University Kansas Publication Museum of Natural History, 13:309-322.
Distler, D. A., and A. L. Metcalf. 1962. Etheostoma pallididorsum, a new percid fish from the Caddo River system of Arkansas. Copeia, 3:556-561.
Metcalf, A. L. 1962. Gastropods of Cowley County, Kansas. Transactions Kansas Academy Science, 65:275-289.
Metcalf, A. L., and Distler, D. A.. 1963. The crayfish Orconectes palmeri longimanus (Faxon) in Kansas. Transactions Kansas Academy Science, 66:141-147.
Cross, F. B., and A. L. Metcalf. 1963. Records of three lampreys (Ichthyomyzon) from the Missouri River System. Copeia, 1963:187.
Metcalf, A. L. 1966. Fishes of the Kansas River System in relation to zoogeography of the Great Plains. University Kansas Publication Museum of Natural History, 17:23-189.
Metcalf, A. L. 1966. Corbicula manilensis in the Mesilla Valley of Texas and New Mexico. Nautilus, 80:16-20.
Metcalf, A. L. 1967. Late Quaternary mollusks of the Rio Grande Valley, Caballo Dam, New Mexico, to El Paso, Texas. University of Texas at El Paso, Science Series. 1:1-62.
Metcalf, A. L. 1968. Mollusca of El Paso County, westernmost Texas. Annual Report of the American Malacology Union, 34:32-33.
Metcalf, A. L. 1969. Quaternary surfaces, sediments, and mollusks: southern Mesilla Valley, New Mexico and Texas. New Mexico Geological Society. Field Conference Guidebook. 20:158-164.
Metcalf, A. L. 1970. Field journal of Henry A. Pilsbry pertaining to New Mexico and Trans-Pecos Texas. Sterkiana, 39:23-37.
Metcalf, A. L. 1970. Late Pleistocene (Woodfordian) gastropods from Dry Cave, Eddy County, New Mexico. Texas Journal of Science, 22:41-46.
Metcalf, E. L., and A. L. Metcalf. 1970. Observations on ornate box turtles (Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 73(1):96-117.
Metcalf, A. L., and W. E. Johnson. 1971. Gastropods of the Franklin Mountains, El Paso County, Texas. Southwestern Naturalist, 16:85-109.
Metcalf, A. L., and P. A. Hurley. 1971. A new Ashmunella (Polygyridae) from Dona Aña County, New Mexico. The Nautilus, 84:120-127.
Metcalf, A. L. 1972. Field journals of Henry A. Pilsbry pertaining to Arizona (annotations by Joseph C. Bequaert and Walter B. Miller). Sterkiana, 45:21-31.
Metcalf, A. L., and R. A. Smartt. 1972. Records of introduced mollusks: New Mexico and western Texas. The Nautilus, 85:144-145.
Metcalf, A. L. 1973. New fossil Ashmunellas from New Mexico (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Polygyridae). The Veliger, 16:31-39.
Metcalf, A. L. 1974. Gastropods of Howells Ridge, Grant County, New Mexico: A fauna in the process of extinction? Southwestern Naturalist, 19:57-64.
Stern, E. M., and A. L. Metcalf. 1974. Chromosome numbers in Metcalf, A. L. (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Polygyridae). The Veliger, 17:19-21. (with E.M. Stern)
Metcalf, A. L. 1974. Peripheral species of the Oreohelix metcalfei Cockerell complex (Pulmonata: Oreohelicidae). The Nautilus, 88:94-100.
Metcalf, A. L., and R.W. Fullington. 1976. A new fossil Ashmunella (Pulmonata: Polygyridae) from the Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas. The Nautilus 92:88-91.
Metcalf, A. L., and D. H. Riskind. 1976. A new Humboldtiana (Pulmonata: Helminthoglyptidae) from Coahuila, Mexico. The Nautilus, 90(3):99-100.
Metcalf, A. L. 1976. First records of two species of land snails in New Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist, 21:410-411.
Metcalf, A. L., and R. A. Smartt. 1977. Two new species of Ashmunella from Dona Aña County, New Mexico, with notes on the Ashmunella kochii complex. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 90(4):849-876.
Metcalf, A. L., and R.W. Fullington. 1978. A new fossil Ashmunella (Pulmonata: Polygyridae) from the Sierra Diablo and Hueco mountains, Texas. The Nautilus, 92:88-91.
Metcalf, A. L., and E. L. Metcalf. 1978. An experiment with homing in Ornate Box Turtles (Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz). Journal of Herpetology, 12:411-412.
Metcalf, A. L. 1978. Some Quaternary molluscan faunas from the northern Chihuahuan Desert and their paleoecological implications. Trans. Symp. Biol. Resources Chihuahuan Desert Region, National Park Servive, Transactions and Proceedings Series, 3:53-66.
Metcalf, A. L., and D. H. Riskind. 1979. Four new species of Polygyra (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Polygyridae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 91:815-827.
Metcalf, E. L., and A. L. Metcalf. 1979. Mortality in hibernating Ornate Box Turtles, Terrapene ornata. Herpetologica, 35:93-96.
Metcalf, A. L., and D. H. Riskind. 1979. New information concerning Humboldtiana taylori Drake, 1951 (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Helminthoglyptidae). The Veliger, 22:179-181.
Metcalf, A. L. 1980. A new fossil Radiocentrum (Pulmonata: Oreohelicidae) from nothern Coahuila, Mexico. The Nautilus, 94(1):16-17.
Metcalf, A. L. 1980. Fossil Rangia cuneata (Matridae) in Eddy County, New Mexico. The Nautilus, 94(1):2-3
Metcalf, A. L. 1980. Unionacean mussels, past and present, from six streams in Kansas and Oklahoma. Transactions Kansas Academy Science, 83:1-19.
Metcalf, A. L. 1982. A new species (with subspecies) of fossil Oreohelix from New Mexico. The Veliger, 24(3):259-264.
Metcalf, A. L., and C. R. Crews. 1982. A new species of fossil Oreohelix (Pulmonata: Oreohelicidae) from Otero County, New Mexico. The Veliger, 24(3):265-266.
Crews, C. R., and A. L. Metcalf. 1982. A new species of oreohelicid land snail from the San Agustin Plains, New Mexico. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 95:256-264.
Metcalf, A. L. 1982. Fossil unionacean bivalves from three tributaries of the Rio Grande. Pp. 43-59 in Davis, J.R. (Ed.) Proceedings of the symposium on recent benthological investigations in Texas and adjacent states. Texas Academy of Science, Austin, Texas, pp. 1-278
Metcalf, A. L. 1982. A new Humboldtiana (Pulmonata: Helminthoglyptidae) from northwestern Coahuila, Mexico. The Nautilus, 97(2):69-72.
Metcalf, A. L., and C. R. Wahl. 1982. Additions to New Mexico's land molluscan fauna with notes on Ashmunella. New Mexico Journal of Science, 22(2):43-45.
Metcalf, A. L. 1983. Mortality in unionacean mussels in a year of drought. Transactions Kansas Academy of Science, 86:89-92.
Metcalf, A. L. 1984. Land snails (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Texas Journal of Science, 36:53-64.
Metcalf, A. L. 1984. Distribution of land snails of the San Andres and Organ Mountains, southern New Mexico. The Southwestern Natuaralist, 29:35-44.
Metcalf, A. L., and D. A. Distler. 1984. Gastropods collected from eastern Oklahoma by Dwight Isely in 1911. The Nautilus, 98:135-137.
Metcalf, A. L. 1984. A new Humboldtiana (Pulmonata: Helminthoglyptidae) from extreme eastern Chihuahua, Mexico. The Nautilus, 98:145-147.
Metcalf, A. L., and E. L. Metcalf. 1985. Longevity in some Ornate Box Turtles (Terrapene ornata ornata). Journal of Herpetology, 19:157-158.
Metcalf, A. L., and A. Carrillo. 1985. Some land snails of the Sierra San Ignacio, Chihuahua, Mexico, in relation to regional distribution. The Southwestern Naturalist, 30:459-460.
Ashbaugh, K. M., and A. L. Metcalf. 1986. Fossil molluscan faunas from four spring-related deposits in the northern Chihuahuan Desert, southern New Mexico and westernmost Texas. New Mexico Bureau Mines and Natural Resources Circular, 200:5-23.
Neck, R., and A. L. Metcalf. 1988. Freshwater bivalves of the lower Rio Grande, Texas. Texas Journal of Science, 40(3):259-268.
Metcalf, A. L. 1997. (Book Review). Howells, R.G., et al: Freshwater mussels of Texas. Texas Journal of Science, 49:173-174
Worthington, R. D., and A. L. Metcalf. 1997. Additions to the present and Quaternary gastropod faunas of the Franklin Mountains, El Paso County, Texas. Southwestern Naturalist, 42:471-477.
Dillon, T. J., and A. L. Metcalf. 1997. Altitudinal distribution of land snails in some montane canyons in New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 10:109-127.
Metcalf, A. L., and R. A. Smartt (eds). 1997. Land snails of New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 10:1-145.
Metcalf, A. L., and R. A. Smartt. 1997. Land snails of New Mexico: A systematic review. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 10:1-69.
Metcalf, A. L. 1997. Land snails of New Mexico from a historical zoogeographic point of view. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 10:71-108.
Metcalf, A. L. 2002. Designation of a lectotype for Succinea grosvenorii Lea (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata). The Veliger, 45:79-81.
Last Update: 26 Mar 2016