George Sprague Myers

George Sprague Myers

• (*2. Februar 1905 bis †4. November 1985)

Beschriebene Taxa

• 85 (bisher in diesem Wiki erfasste) Taxa beschrieben von George Sprague Myers

Publikationen

1920-1929

• Myers, G.S. 1923. Hyphessobrycon anisitsi, a new fish for the aquarists. The Fish Culturist, 3 (3): 250-251. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. 1924. A new poeciliid fish from the Congo, with remarks on funduline genera. American Museum Novitates, 116: 1-9. (PDF) Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. 1924. New genera of African poeciliid fishes. Copeia, 129: 41-45. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. 1924. Mutanda ichthyologica. Neoborus Boulenger and Barbus rubripinnis Nichols and Griscom. Revue de Zoologie Africaine, 12 (3): 397. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. 1924. A new Rivulus from Rio de Janeiro. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 9), 13 (78): 588-590. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. 1925. Results of some recent studies on the American killifishes. The Fish Culturist, 4 (8): 370–371. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. 1926. Two new genera of African characin fishes. Revue de Zoologie Africaine, 13 (3-4): 174-175. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. 1927. Descriptions of new South American fresh-water fishes collected by Dr. Carl Ternetz. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 68 (3): 107-135. (BHL) Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. 1927. Puntius streeteri, a new cyprinoid fish from Borneo, and Cobitophis, a new genus of Bornean Cobitidae. American Museum Novitates, #265: 1-4. (PDF) Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. 1927. An analysis of the genera of neotropical killifishes allied to Rivulus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (Series 9), 19 (109): 115-129. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. 1928. New fresh-water fishes from Peru, Venezuela, and Brazil. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (Series 10) 2 (7): 83-90. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. 1928. Two new genera of fishes. Copeia, #166: 7-8. Zitatseite 
• Eigenmann, C.H. & Myers, G.S. 1929. The American Characidae [Part 5, and incl. Supplement by G.S. Myers, pp. 516–550]. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 43 (5): 429–558, Pls. 57, 63, 70–74, 81–83, 94. Zitatseite 

1930-1939

• Herre, A.W.C.T. & Myers, G.S. 1931. Fishes from southeastern China and Hainan. Lingnan Science Journal, Canton, 10 (2-3): 233-254. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. & Shapovalov, L. 1932. On the identity of Ophiocephalus and Channa, two genera of labyrinth fishes. Peking Natural History Bulletin, 6: 33-37. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. 1933. The genera of Indo-Malayan and African cyprinodont fishes related to Panchax and Nothobranchius. Copeia, 1933 (4): 180-185. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. 1935. A new genus of opisthognathid fishes. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 91 (23): 1-5. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. 1935. An annotated list of the cyprinodont fishes of Hispaniola, with descriptions of two new species. Zoologica, Scientific Contributions of the New York Zoological Society, 10 (3): 301-316. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. 1935. Four new fresh-water fishes from Brazil, Venezuela and Paraguay. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 48: 7-14. (BHL) Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. 1936. On the Indo-Australian fishes of the genus Scatophagus, with description of a new genus, Selenotoca. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 49: 83-85. (BHL) Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. 1936. A new characid fish of the genus Hyphessobrycon from the Peruvian Amazon. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 49: 97-98. (BHL) Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. 1938. Studies on the genera of cyprinodont fishes XIV. Aplocheilichthys and its relatives in Africa. Copeia, 1938 (3): 136-143. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. 1939. A new owstoniid fish from deep water off the Philippines. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 52: 19-20. (BHL) Zitatseite 

1940-1949

• Myers, G.S. 1940. A note on Monognathus. Copeia, 1940 (2): 141. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. 1940. Suppression of Acaropsis and Chalcinus, two preoccupied generic names of South American fresh-water fishes. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, 1 (5): 170. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. & Wade, C.B. 1941. Four new genera and ten new species of eels from the Pacific coast of tropical America. Allan Hancock Pacific Expedition 1932–40, Los Angeles, 9 (4): 65–111, Pls. 7–16. (BHL) Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. 1942. Studies on South American fresh-water fishes. I. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, 2 (4): 89-114. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. & Wade, C.B. 1942. The Pacific American atherinid fishes of the genera Eurystole, Nectarges, Coleotropis and Melanorhinus. Allan Hancock Pacific Expedition 1932-40, Los Angeles, 9 (5): 113-149, Pls. 17-19. (BHL) Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. & Miranda Ribeiro, P. 1945. A remarkable new genus of sexually dimorphic characid fishes from the Rio Paraguay Basin in Matto Grosso. Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, Zoologia, Nova Série No. 32: 1-8. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. & Harry, R.R. 1948. Apistogramma ramirezi, a cichlid fish from Venezuela. Proceedings of the California Zoological Club, 1 (1): 1-8. Zitatseite 

1950-1959

• Myers, G.S. 1950. Studies on South American fresh-water fishes. II. The genera of anostomine characids. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, 3 (4): 184-198. Zitatseite 
• Rivas, L.R. & Myers, G.S. 1950. A new genus of poeciliid fishes from Hispaniola, with notes on genera allied to Poecila and Mollienesia. Copeia, 1950 (4): 288-294, Pl. 1. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. 1955. Notes on the classification and names of cyprinodont fishes. The Tropical Fish Magazine, March: 7. Zitatseite 
• Böhlke, J.E. & Myers, G.S. 1956. Studies on fishes of the family Characidae. --No. 11. A new genus and species of hemiodontins from the Rio Orinoco in Venezuela. Notulae Naturae (Philadelphia), #286: 1-6. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. & Böhlke, J.E. 1956. The Xenurobryconini, a group of minute South American characid fishes with teeth outside the mouth. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, 7 (2): 6-12. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. & Storey, M.H. 1956. Curatorial practices in Zoological Research collections. No. 2. Systems followed in filing specimens of Recent fishes in the Natural History Museum of Stanford University. Circular no. 6 of the Natural History Museum of Stanford University. i-viii + 1-44. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. & Weitzman, S.H. 1956. Two new Brazilian fresh water fishes. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, 7 (1): 1-4. Zitatseite 

1960-

• Myers, G.S. 1960. The genera and ecological geography of the south american banjo catfishes, family Aspredinidae. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, 7: 132-139. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. 1960. The mormyrid genera Hippopotamyrus and Cyphomyrus. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, 7 (4): 123-125. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. & Weitzman, S.H. 1960. Two new fishes collected by General Thomas D. White in eastern Colombia. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, 7 (4): 98-109. Zitatseite 
• Myers, G.S. & Weitzman, S.H. 1966. Two remarkable new trichomycterid catfishes from the Amazon basin in Brazil and Colombia. Journal of Zoology, 149: 277–287. Zitatseite 
• Greenwood, P.H., Rosen, D.E., Weitzman, S.H. & Myers, G.S. 1966. Phyletic studies of teleostean fishes, with a provisional classification of living forms. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 131 (4): 339-456. (PDF) Zitatseite 

Patronyme

Rhinopetitia myersi Géry, 1964
Xenurolebias myersi (Carvalho, 1971)

Literatur

• Zarske, A. 2019. Pioniere der Aquaristik und Ichthyologie. 18. Teil. George Sprague Myers (2. Februar 1905 bis 4. November 1985) und William Thornton Innes (2. Februar 1874 bis 27. Februar 1969). Aquaristik Fachmagazin, #266, 51 (2): 76-77. Zitatseite [: 76f, sw-Foto, Biografie]