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Fish Division

The Division of Fishes of the Museum of Zoology is a research resource and teaching center dedicated to the study of fish evolution, phylogeny, distribution, ecology, and behavior. We have about 3.5 million catalogued specimens which are available for study. The collections are especially rich in specimens from the U.S. and Mexico, but we also have excellent collections from Southeast Asia, Japan, the Neotropics, and Africa. Our current projects include work on cichlids, Asian catfishes, Neotropical characins, and North American diversity patterns and fossils.

ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS

  • Albert, J.S and W.L. Fink. 2007.
    • Phylogenetic relationships of fossil Neotropical electric fishes (Osteichthyes: Gymnotiformes) from the upper Miocene of Bolivia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27(1):17-25.
  • Spencer, J.E., G.R. Smith, and T.E. Dowling. (in press)
    • Middle and Late Cenozoic Evolution of Topography and Late Cenozoic Evolution of Fish in the American Southwest, and the Location of the Continental Divide, in Reheis, M., and Hershler, R., eds., Geological Society of America Special Publication.
  • Estabrook, G.F., G.R. Smith, T.E. Dowling. 2007.
    • Body Mass and Temperature Influence Evolutionary Rate of mtDNA in North American Cyprinidae. Evolution. 2007 (in press).
  • Smith, G.R., D.R. Montgomery, N.P. Peterson. (2007).
    • Pleistocene sockeye salmon in lake sediments in the Skokomish River Canyon, Washington. Quaternary Review (in press).
  • Eiting, T., and G.R. Smith. 2007.
    • Miocene Salmon (Oncorhynchus) from Idaho and Oregon: Gill Raker Evolution Correlated with Plankton productivity. Paleobiology, Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology. 2007 (in press).

NEWS

Dr. Mario de Pinna, Professor and Vice-Director of the Museum of Zoology of the University of Sao Paulo Brazil, will be in residence in the Fish Division from late April through July 2008.

Dr. Clyde Barbour is spending the semester in the Division of Fishes working on Chirostoma, Menidia, and Poblana.
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