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Joseph S. Nelson

Biology

#1548

World Rank

#2561

Historical Rank

#762

USA Rank

Zoology

#264

World Rank

#649

Historical Rank

#89

USA Rank

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Joseph S. Nelson's Degrees

PhD Zoology University of British Columbia
Masters Zoology University of British Columbia
Bachelors Zoology University of British Columbia

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According to Wikipedia, Joseph Schieser Nelson was an American ichthyologist. He is best known for the book Fishes of the World , which is the standard reference in fish systematics and evolution. Nelson obtained his PhD from University of British Columbia in 1965. He retired in 2002 from the University of Alberta where he made most of his career; he continued to hold position as a Professor Emeritus and stayed scientifically active until his final years.

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Fishes of the world. (1978) (4474)
Fishes of the World: Nelson/Fishes of the World (2016) (949)
Fishes of the World, 3rd Edition (1994) (798)
Conservation status of imperiled north American freshwater and diadromous fishes (2008) (752)
Interrelationships of fishes (1997) (431)
A field guide to freshwater fishes: North America North of Mexico (1992) (284)
Cyprinid fishes Systematics, biology and exploitation (1995) (249)
Multivariate differentiation of parapatric and allopatric populations of threespine stickleback in the Sangan River watershed, Queen Charlotte Islands (1985) (145)
The Fishes of Alberta (1992) (139)
EFFECT OF COLD ACCLIMATION ON ELECTROLYTE DISTRIBUTION IN RAINBOW TROUT (SALMO GAIRDNERII) (1964) (54)
Geographic Variation in the Brook Stickleback, Culaea inconstans, and Notes on Nomenclature and Distribution (1969) (48)
Comparison of the Pectoral and Pelvic Skeletons and of some other Bones and their Phylogenetic Implications in the Aulorhynchidae and Gasterosteidae (Pisces) (1971) (46)
Absence of the Pelvic Complex in Ninespine Sticklebacks, Pungitius pungitius, Collected in Ireland and Wood Buffalo National Park Region, Canada, with Notes on Meristic Variation (1971) (45)
Distribution and Nomenclature of North American Kokanee, Oncorhynchus nerka (1968) (42)
Editorial and introduction: The species concept in fish biology (1999) (37)
TAXONOMIC REVIEW OF THE GENUS PUNGITIUS, NINESPINE STICKLEBACKS (GASTEROSTEIDAE) (2000) (33)
Origin and phylogenetic interrelationships of teleosts : honoring Gloria Arratia : proceedings of the international symposium at the ASIH Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, 2007 (2010) (33)
Hybridization and Isolating Mechanisms Between Catostomus commersonii and C. macrocheilus (Pisces: Catostomidae) (1968) (32)
Evidence of a Genetic Basis for Absence of the Pelvic Skeleton in Brook Stickleback, Culaea inconstans, and Notes on the Geographical Distribution and Origin of the Loss (1977) (32)
Georgraphic and morphological variation in the presence and absence of the pelvic skeleton in the brook stickleback, Culaea inconstans (Kirtland), in Alberta and Saskatchewan. (1971) (30)
Two new south Pacific fishes of the genus Ebinania and contributions to the systematics of Psychrolutidae (Scorpaeniformes) (1982) (30)
Habitat and Morphological Correlates to Vertebral Number as Shown in a Teleost, Gasterosteus aculeatus (1987) (29)
Salinity tolerance of brook sticklebacks, Culaea inconstans, freshwater ninespine sticklebacks, Pungitius pungitius, and freshwater fourspine sticklebacks, Apeltes quadracus (1968) (29)
Fishes of the World. Second Edition. (1985) (29)
Phylogenetic Relationships of Sticklebacks (Gasterosteidae), with Emphasis on Ninespine Sticklebacks (Pungitius SPP.) (2004) (27)
Limnichthys polyactis, a new species of blennioid fish from New Zealand, with notes on the taxonomy and distribution of other Creediidae (including Limnichthyidae) (1978) (20)
COMPARATIVE OSTEOLOGY OF THE GREEK NINESPINE STICKLEBACK, PUNGITIUS HELLENICUS (TELEOSTEI, GASTEROSTEIDAE) (1998) (20)
Deep-Water Ninespine Sticklebacks, Pungitius pungitius, in the Mississippi Drainage, Crooked Lake, Indiana (1968) (20)
On the interrelationships of the genera of creediidae (Perciformes: Trachinoidei) (1985) (19)
Interrelationships of Gasterosteiformes (Actinopterygii, Percomorpha) (2006) (18)
Validity of Pungitius hellenicus Stephanidis, 1971 (Teleostei, Gasterosteidae), a Stickleback Fish from Greece (1997) (17)
Variation in Gillraker Number in North American Kokanee, Oncorhynchus nerka (1968) (17)
Recommended changes in common fish names: pikeminnow to replace squawfish ( Ptychocheilus spp.) (1998) (16)
Some characters of Trichonotidae, with emphasis to those distinguishing it from Creediidae (Perciformes: Trachinoidei) (1986) (16)
Life History of the Brook Silverside, Labidesthes sicculus, in Crooked Lake, Indiana (1968) (15)
Ambophthalmos, a new genus for "Neophrynichthys" angustus and "Neophrynichthys" magnicirrus, and the systematic interrelationships of the fathead sculpins (Cottoidei, Psychrolutidae) (1998) (13)
Fishes of the southern hemisphere genus Neophrynichthys (scorpaeniformes : cottoidei), with descriptions of two new species from New Zealand and Macquarie Island (1977) (12)
Psychrolutes sio, a new psychrolutid fish (Scorpaeniformes) from the southeastern Pacific (1980) (12)
Crystallodytes pauciradiatus (Perciformes), a new creediid fish species from Easter Island (1985) (11)
Revision of the percophid genus Bembrops (Actinopterygii: perciformes) (1996) (11)
HYBRIDIZATION BETWEEN TWO CYPRINID FISHES, HYBOPSIS PLUMBEA AND RHINICHTHYS CATARACTAE, IN ALBERTA (1966) (9)
Hybridization between northern redbelly dace (Phoxinus eos) and finescale dace (Phoxinus neogaeus) (Osteichthyes: Cyprinidae) in Alberta (1989) (9)
Occurrence of Hybrids Between Longnose Sucker (Catostomus catostomus) and White Sucker (C. commersoni) in Upper Kananaskis Reservoir, Alberta (1973) (9)
Distribution, morphology, and taxonomy of the psychrolutid fish Cottunculus granulosus (Karrer) from the southwestern Atlantic. (1980) (8)
Morphological characteristics of an introduced threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, from Hasse Lake, Alberta: a first occurrence in the interior plains of North America (1987) (7)
A Capital case for common names of species of fishes--a white crappie or a White Crappie (2002) (7)
Revision of the fishes of the New Zealand genus Hemerocoetes (Perciformes: Percophididae), with descriptions of two new species (1979) (7)
Morphological differences between the Teleosts Couesius plumbeus (Lake chub) and Rhinichthys cataractae (Longnose dace) and their hybrids from Alberta (1973) (7)
Creedia alleni and Creedia partimsquamigera (Perciformes: Creediidae), two new marine fish species from Australia, with notes on other Australian creediids (1983) (6)
New material of Psychrolutes sio (Scorpaeniformes, Psychrolutidae) from the eastern Pacific of South America and comments on the taxonomy of Psychrolutes inermis and Psychrolutes macrocephalus from the eastern Atlantic of Africa (1985) (5)
Differential Losses of Floy Anchor Tags between Male and Female Brown Trout (1995) (5)
Annotated key to the fishes of Indiana (1968) (5)
Fishes of the world / Joseph S. Nelson (1984) (4)
Ebinania australiae , a new species of fathead sculpin from southern Australia (Scorpaeniformes: Psychrolutidae) (2006) (4)
Hybridization and isolating mechanisms in Catostomus commersonii and Catostomus macrocheilus (1965) (4)
Some osteological differences between the blennioid fishes Limnichthys polyactis and L. rendahli, with comments on other species of Creediidae (1979) (4)
The fish facilities at the Whitehorse Rapids power development, Yukon Territory (1960) (4)
Redescription of Antipodocottus elegans (Scorpaeniformes : Cottidae) from Australia, with comments on the genus (1990) (3)
Neophrynichthys heterospilos, a new species of fathead sculpin (Scorpaeniformes: Psych rol utidae) from New Zealand (2000) (3)
Some Characters of Trichonotidae, with Emphasis to Those Distinguishing It from Creediidae (1986) (3)
Corrections to ‘Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico’ (2006) (3)
Ecology of the Southernmost Sympatric Population of the Brook Stickleback, Culaea inconstans, and the Ninespine Stickleback, Pungitius pungitius, in Crooked Lake, Indiana (1967) (2)
The next 25 years: vertebrate systematics (1987) (2)
Comments On The Need For Stability In Fish Family group Names (1991) (2)
Effects on fishes of changes within the Kananaskis River system (1962) (2)
Threatened Fishes of the World: Pungitius hellenicus Stephanidis, 1971 (Gasterosteidae) (1999) (2)
Cottunculus nudus, A New Psychrolutid Fish from New Zealand (Scorpaeniformes: Cottoidei) (1989) (2)
Ambophthalmos eurystigmatephoros: A New Species of Fathead Sculpin (Scorpaeniformes: Psychrolutidae) from New Zealand (1999) (1)
Comment on the proposed conservation of the specific name of Macropodus concolor Ahl, 1937 (Osteichthyes, Osphronemidae) - (Case 3255; See BZN 60: 206-207; 61: 114-116, 173-174, 256-257) (2005) (0)
Comment on the proposed reinstatement of the specific name of Sphyraena acus Lacepède, 1803 (currently Tylosurus acus; Teleostei, BELONIDAE) (Case 3297) (2006) (0)
Comments on Raja say Le Sueur, 1817 (currently Dasyatis say; Chondrichthyes, Myliobatiformes, DASYATIDAE): proposed change of spelling to Raja sayi Le Sueur, 1817 1 (Case 3410) (2010) (0)
Darwin's Fishes: Foreword (2004) (0)

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Fishes of the World