Conant is commemorated in the scientific names of two snakes: Thamnophis conanti, a species of garter snake; and Agkistrodon conanti, a species of venomous pit viper. Selected bibliography What Snake Is That? A Field Guide to the Snakes of the United States East of the Rocky Mountains (1939); additional author: William Bridges, and illustrator: Edmond Malnate; New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Company A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America (1958); Illustrated by Isabelle Hunt Conant (Series: Peterson Field Guides); Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company Second edition (1975), (hardcover), (paperback) Third edition (1991), additional author: Joseph T. Collins, and illustrator: Tom R. Johnson Third edition, expanded (1998); Fourth edition (2016), additional author: Robert Powell, Snakes of the Agkistrodon Complex: A Monographic Review (with Howard K. Gloyd) (1990), SSAR Publications, Autobiography: A Field Guide to the Life and Times of Roger Conant, (1997), Canyonlands Publishing Group, The Reptiles of Virginia (1997), Smithsonian Books, Reptiles and Amphibians (Peterson First Guides) (1999), Houghton Mifflin Company, (1999): North American Watersnakes: A Natural History (2004), University of Oklahoma Press, Reptile Study (1944); Merit Badge Series No. 3813, Boy Scouts of America, Brunswick, New Jersey, 62 pp.; photographs by Mark Mooney, Jr. and Isabelle Hunt Conant References External links "In memoriam" by friends and family short biography (with photo) short biography International Zoo News: Book Reviews, A Field Guide to the Life and Times of Roger Conant RootsWeb Obit: Roger Conant American herpetologists American taxonomists 1909 births 2003 deaths Zoo directors People from Mamaroneck, New York Deaths from cancer in New Mexico 20th-century American zoologists Scientists from New York (state)