American zoologist Mary Jane Rathbun was born #OTD in 1860.
Rathbun's primary work involved the classification and description of crustaceans, particularly crabs. Over her career, she described over 1,000 new species and genera of crustaceans. She developed new methods and techniques for identifying and classifying crustaceans, including detailed morphological descriptions and illustrations that facilitated the work of other researchers.