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.

News & Publications

Jeremy Wright Best Student Poster: Congratulations to Jeremy Wright, who recently received the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists' Storer Award in Ichthyology for his poster, "The Phylogenetic Distribution of Siluriform Venom Glands". The poster was presented at the Society's annual meeting in Montreal which was held from July 23-28, and is currently on display in the Fish Division of the Museum of Zoology.

prosantaThanks to Prosanta Chakrabarty (Ph.D. EEB 2006), who sent in this photo taken in Madagascar with Phil Willink (Ph.D. EEB 2004), John Sparks (Ph.D. EEB 2001), Steve Goodman (B.Sc. Zoology 1984) and his family.


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

Dr. Clyde Barbour spent the Winter 2008 semester in the Division of Fishes working on Chirostoma, Menidia, and Poblana.