George Sprague Myers
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George Sprague Myers (1905–1985), U.S. ichthyologist and herpetologist. Myers spent most of his career at Stanford University, where he was one of the leading American ichthyologists of the twentieth century. He served as the editor of Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin as well as president of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Myers was also head of the Division of Fishes at the United States National Museum, and held a position as an ichthyologist for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. He was also an advisor in fisheries and ichthyology to the Brazilian Government.
Authored taxa
Publications
- Myers, G.S. 1925. Results of some recent studies on the American killifishes. The Fish Culturist, 4 (8): 370–371. 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. & 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. & Weitzman, S.H. 1956. Two new Brazilian fresh water fishes. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, 7 (1): 1-4. 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
- 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
- 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
