George S. Myers

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According to Wikipedia, George Sprague Myers was an American ichthyologist who spent most of his career at Stanford University. 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.

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Phyletic studies of teleostean fishes, with a provisional classification of living forms. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 131, article 4 (1967) (964)
Usage of anadromous, catadromous and allied terms for migratory fishes (1949) (304)
Amphibians of Western North America (1952) (184)
Derivation of the Freshwater Fish Fauna of Central America (1966) (166)
Salt-tolerance of fresh-water fish groups in relation to zoogeographical problems (1949) (160)
THE ENDEMIC FISH FAUNA OF LAKE LANAO, AND THE EVOLUTION OF HIGHER TAXONOMIC CATEGORIES (1960) (81)
The Acanthodian Fishes (1939) (74)
A Descriptive Catalog of the Shore Fishes of Peru (1947) (72)
Fishes of Western South America. I. The Intercordilleran and Amazonian Lowlands of Peru. II. The High Pampas of Peru, Bolivia, and Northern Chile. With a Revision of the Peruvian Gymnotidae and of the Genus Orestias (1943) (66)
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A List of the Names of Genera and Subgenera in Zoology from the Tenth Edition of Linnaeus 1758 to the End of 1935 (1940) (63)
Les Genres des Poissons d'eau Douces de l'Afrique (1960) (37)
Named main divisions of teleostean fishes (1967) (36)
Fishes of the Crane Pacific expedition (1936) (34)
Science and Scientists in the Netherlands Indies (1946) (30)
Two extra-ordinary new blind Nematognath fishes from the Rio Negro, respresenting a new subfamily of Pygidiidae, with a re-arrangement of the genera of the family, and illustrations of some previously described genera and species from Venezuela and Brazil (1944) (26)
A Guide to the Fishes of Tennessee and the Mid-South (1940) (24)
Deep-sea Angler-fishes (Ceratioidea) (1932) (24)
Notes on Fishes in the Zoological Museum of Stanford University. 1. The Fishes of the Herre Philippine Expedition of 1931 (1934) (24)
Tentative Program of the University of Oklahoma Biological Survey@@@Further Notes on the Fishes of Oklahoma with Descriptions of New Species of Cyprinidae@@@Fishes Collected in Oklahoma and Arkansas in 1927 (1930) (22)
A Colored Atlas of Some Vertebrates from Ceylon. Vol. 1, Fishes (1952) (19)
Three New Asiatic Checklists@@@Index to Fishes of Siam@@@A Check List of Philippine Fishes@@@A Revised Catalogue of the Fishes of Korea (1937) (17)
The sea-horse and its relatives (1960) (16)
A Brief Sketch of the History of Ichthyology in America to the Year 1850 (1964) (16)
The Plagiostome Hypophysis, General Morphology and Types of Structure (1941) (15)
Die Aquarienfische in Wort und Bild (1935) (13)
Notes on Pacific Coast Triturus (1942) (13)
FISH EVOLUTION IN LAKE NYASA (1960) (12)
A new frog from the Anamallai Hills, with notes on other frogs and some snakes from South India (1942) (12)
The American Characidae By Carl H. Eigenmann. (11)
Where Is the Collection? An Account of the Various Natural History Collections Which Have Come under the Notice of the Compiler (1941) (11)
The California plethodont salamander, Aneides flavipunctatus (Strauch), with description of a new subspecies and notes on other western Aneides (1948) (10)
Problems of nomenclature and dating of Spix and Agassiz's Brazilian fishes (1829-1831) (1971) (10)
A new genus of gymnotid eels from the Peruvian Amazon (1936) (10)
Fishes from the upper Rio Meta Basinc Colombia (10)
Geographic variation in the ribbed frog, Ascaphus truei (1949) (10)
The American Leptodactylid Frog Genera Eleutherodactylus, Hylodes (= Elosia), and Caudiverbera (= Calyptocephalus) (1962) (9)
The systematic position of the phallostethid fishes, with diagnosis of a new genus from Siam. American Museum novitates ; no. 295 (9)
The Nature of Systematic Biology and of a Species Description (1952) (9)
The killifish of San Ignacio and the stickleback of San Ramon, Lower California (9)
Restriction of the Croakers (Sciaenidae) and Anchovies (Engraulidae) to Continental Waters (1960) (8)
The Systematic Status of Hyla septentrionalis, the Large Tree Frog of the Florida Keys, the Bahamas and Cuba (1950) (8)
A Remarkable New Genus of Anostomin Characid Fishes from the Upper Rio Xingu in Central Brazil (1959) (8)
A Third Record of the Albulid Fish Dixonina nemoptera Fowler, with Notes on an Albulid from the Eocene of Maryland (1936) (8)
A Synopsis for the Identification of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Indiana (8)
VIII.—New fresh-water fishes from Peru, Venezuela, and Brazil (1928) (8)
Sharks and Sawfishes in the Amazon (1952) (8)
A new poeciliid fish from the Congo : with remarks on funduline genera. American Museum novitates ; no. 116 (7)
The Genera of Indo-Malayan and African Cyprinodont Fishes Related to Panchax and Nothobranchius (1933) (7)
Concerning Melanodimorphism in Killifishes (1925) (7)
IX.—An analysis of the genera of neotropical killifishes allied to Rivulus (7)
Notes on Salamander Voices (1951) (7)
A new characid fish of the genus Hyphessobrycon from the Peruvian Amazon (1936) (7)
A New Whitefish, Prosopium snyderi, from Crescent Lake, Washington (1932) (7)
A new frog of the genus Micrixalus from Travancore (1942) (7)
The neotropical anchovies of the genus Amplova (1940) (7)
Rediscovery of the Philippine Discoglossid Frog, Barbourula busuangensis (1943) (7)
The Differential Characters of Bufo americanus and Bufo fowleri (1927) (7)
Generic Classification of the High-Altitude Pelobatid Toads of Asia (Scutiger, Aelurophryne, and Oreolalax) (1962) (7)
LXXV.—On Curimatid Characin fishes having an incomplete lateral line, with a note on the peculiar sexual dimorphism of Curimatopsis macrolepis (1929) (7)
The black toad of Deep Springs Valley, Inyo County, California (1942) (7)
Studies on the Genera of Cyprinodont Fishes. XIV. Aplocheilichthys and Its Relatives in Africa (1938) (7)
Further Notes on Anabantids (1923) (6)
Introduction of the European Bitterling (Rhodeus) in New York and of the Rudd (Scardinius) in New Jersey (1925) (6)
An annotated list of the Cyprinodont fishes of His-paniola, with descriptions of two new species (1935) (6)
Rana areolata at Bloomington, Indiana (1927) (6)
New Genera of African Poeciliid Fishes (1924) (6)
Report on the fishes collected by H. C. Raven in Lake Tanganyika in 1920 (1936) (6)
An American Cyprinodont Fish, Jordanella floridae, Reported from Borneo, with Notes on the Possible Widespread Introduction of Foreign Aquarium Fishes (1940) (6)
Three new deep-water fishes from the West Indies (1934) (5)
The Family Name of the Characid Fishes (1949) (5)
Notes on some frogs from Peru and Ecuador (1942) (5)
Historia Natural do Brasil (Historiae Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae) (1942) (5)
Notes on some amphibians in western North America (5)
The Original Descriptions of Bufo fowleri and Bufo americanus (1931) (5)
Notes on Colombian Fresh-Water Fishes, with Description of a New Astroblepus (1932) (5)
Systematic Notes on Some Amazonian Clupeid Fishes of the Genus Ilisha (1950) (5)
Amphibians and Reptiles from Wilmington, N. C. (1924) (5)
Tropical Fish and Their Care (1934) (5)
A new dwarf toad from Southeastern Brazil (1952) (5)
Foreign Introductions of North American Fishes: Inadvisability of Recommending North American Fishes without Careful Appraisal of Foreign Fishes and Ecology (1947) (5)
On the Occurrence and Habits of Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola) in Monterey Bay, California (1930) (5)
Some Reflections on Phylogenetic and Typological Taxonomy (1960) (4)
Ptychidio jordani, an Unusual New Cyprinoid Fish from Formosa (1930) (4)
A Note on Monognathus (1940) (4)
The status of the southern California toad, Bufo californicus (Camp) (4)
Cope as an Ichthyologist (1940) (4)
A New Genus of Poeciliid Fishes from Hispaniola, with Notes on Genera Allied to Poecilia and Mollienesia (1950) (4)
On a small collection of fishes from Upper Burma. American Museum novitates ; no. 150 (4)
A new phallostethid fish from Palawan (1935) (4)
The Pacific American atherinid fishes of the genera Eurystole, Nectarges, Coleotropis, and Melanorhinus (1942) (4)
A new owstoniid fish from deep water off the Philippines (1939) (4)
Occurrence of Uranoscopid Fishes of the Western Pacific Genus Gnathagnus in the American Atlantic Fauna (1946) (4)
Suppression of Lissochilus in Favor of Acrossocheilus for a Genus of Asiatic Cyprinid Fishes, with Notes on Its Classification (1941) (3)
Notes on Ansorgia, Clarisilurus, Wallago, and Ceratoglanis, Four Genera of African and Indo-Malayan Catfishes (1938) (3)
Notes on phallostethid fishes (1937) (3)
A Note on the Stephanoberycid Fishes (1936) (3)
The deep-sea zeomorph fishes of the family Grammicolepidae (1937) (3)
Flying of the Halfbeak, Euleptorhamphus (1950) (3)
The Existence of Cichlid Fishes in Santo Domingo (1928) (3)
Reports on the collections obtained by the first Johnson-Smithsonian Deep-Sea Expedition to the Puerto Rican Deep A new genus of opisthognathid fishes (1935) (3)
Cranial differences in the African characin fishes of the genera Alestes and Brycinus, with notes on the arrangement of related genera. American Museum novitates ; no. 342 (3)
Rhinobrycon negrensis, a new genus and species of Characid fishes from the Rio Negro, Brazil (1944) (3)
Corrections of the Type Localities of Metzia mesembrina, a Formosan Cyprinid, and of Othonocheirodus eigenmanni, a Peruvian Characin (1934) (2)
Pachypanchax, a new genus of cyprinodont fishes from the Seychelles Islands and Madagascar. American Museum novitates ; no. 592 (1933) (2)
A new giant toad from Southwestern Colombia (1951) (2)
The Name of the South American Clupeid Fish, Pristigaster (1956) (2)
A Natural Habitat of the House Gecko (Hemidactylus mabouia) in Brazil (1945) (2)
A Third Record of the Sonoran Box Turtle (1945) (2)
Notes on Amphibians and Reptiles (2)
Cope: Master Naturalist. The Life and Letters of Edward Drinker Cope with a Bibliography of His Writings Classified by Subject. A Study of the Pioneer and Foundation Periods of Vertebrate Paleontology in America@@@Biographical Memoir of Edward Drinker Cope, 1840-1897 (1932) (2)
The Most Widely Heard Amphibian Voice (1951) (2)
The Fishes of New Zealand. Vol. 1 (1941) (2)
Tridentopsis pearsoni. A New Pygidiid Catfish from Bolivia (1925) (2)
Aquarium Fishes; Their Beauty, History, and Care (1971) (2)
A New Name for the Alaskan Cottoid Fish Ulca marmorata (Bean) (1934) (2)
Fauna et Flora Adriatica. Vol. I. Pisces (1952) (2)
Asiatic Giant Salamander Caught in the Sacramento River, and an Exotic Skink near San Francisco (1951) (2)
Nealosa Herre and Myers Equals Konosirus Jordan and Snyder (Clupeidae) (1932) (2)
A new frog of the genus Cornufer from the Solomon Islands, with notes on the endemic nature of the Fijian frog fauna. American Museum novitates ; no. 1418 (1949) (2)
Sc A new genus of funduline cyprinodont fishes from the Orinoco Basinc Venezuela (1932) (2)
Tropical Aquariums, Plants and Fishes (1938) (1)
Notes on Anabantids. III (1926) (1)
Editorial: Idiopathic cardiac hypertrophy--a treacle well? (1974) (1)
A new Limia from San Domingo. American Museum novitates ; no. 79 (1)
The Nomenclatural Status of the Asiatic Fish Genus Culter (1940) (1)
Note: Descriptions of a New Characin Fish and a New Pygidiid Catfish from the Amazon Basin (1926) (1)
Amphibians and Reptiles Observed in the Palisades Interstate Park, New York and New Jersey (1929) (1)
Notropis cummingsi, a new minnow from Wilmington, North Carolina. American Museum novitates ; no. 168 (1)
Puntius streeteri, a new cyprinoid fish from Borneo ; and Cobitophis, a new genus of Bornean Cobitidae. American Museum novitates ; no. 265 (1)
Expedition Oceanographique Belge dan les Eaux Cotieres Africaines de l'Atlantique sud (1958-1959). Resultats Scientifiques. Poissons. Vol. 4 (1960) (1)
Tropical Fish As a Hobby (1969) (1)
A new genus of opisthognathid fishes (1935) (1)
A New Species of Carangid Fish from the Northeastern Pacific (1944) (1)
Possible Introduction of Argentine Toads into Florida (1945) (1)
A new anabantid fish of the genus Betta from Johore (1935) (1)
Mutanda Ichthyologica II. Heringia vs. Rhinosardinia (Clupeidae), Medipellona vs. Chirocentrodon (Clupeidae), and Entonanthias vs. Mirolabrichthys (Anthiidae) (1)
The mormyrid genera Hippopotamyrns and Cyphomyms (1960) (1)
A New Genus of Brazilian Characin Fishes Allied to Bivibranchia. (1927) (1)
A new poeciliid fish of the genus Micropanchax, from Ubangi. American Museum novitates ; no. 122 (1)
Hydromantes platycephalus in Sonora Pass, California (1938) (1)
Discovery Reports. Coast Fishes (1939) (1)
The Status of the Darter Richiella brevispina (Coker) (1927) (1)
Studies honoring Trevor Kincaid (1950) (1)
Notes on Rhyacotriton olympicus and Ascaphus truei in Humboldt County, California (1943) (1)
Der Fisch in der Landschaft. Beitrage zur Okologie der Susswasserfische (1952) (1)
The Species of Piabucina inhabiting Colombia. (0)
A new frog of the genus Batrachylodes from the Solomon Islands (1949) (0)
Book Review:Francis Day (1829-1889) and His Collections of Indian Fishes P. J. P. Whitehead, P. K. Talwar (1979) (0)
Notes on Soles Related to Achirus (1929) (0)
LXIV.—Description of a new characid fish of the genus Stethaprion from the Lower Amazon (1933) (0)
XXVIII.—On the existence of the Japanese killifish, Fundulichthys virescens (1924) (0)
Two Records of the Leatherback Turtle on the California Coast (1933) (0)
A Neglected Description of a Mexican Garter-Snake, Thamnophis stejnegeri McLain (1932) (0)
The Lizard Names Platyurus and Cosymbotus (1943) (0)
Patient-physician coambulation. (1957) (0)
The ramirezi dwarf cichild identified (1948) (0)
O. C. Marsh, Pioneer in Paleontology (1941) (0)
Record Unit 7317 George Sprague Myers Papers, circa 1903-1986 and undated (0)
Accession 97-157 George Sprague Myers Papers, circa 1922-1985 (0)
A new poeciliid fish of the genus Rivulus, from British Guiana. American Museum novitates ; no. 129 (0)
Zoological Nomenclature (1940) (0)
Journal - Collecting Trip to Texas and Arizona, 1929 (0)
Leitfaden zur Pflege und Zucht von Einheimischen und Fremlandischen Zierfischen, Seetieren, Schnecken und Wasserpflanzen Nebst Einem Anhang Uber Trocken- und Kunstfischfutterarten (1935) (0)
Handbook of South American Indians. Vol. 6, Physical Anthropology and Cultural Geography (1952) (0)
The Osteoglossid Fish Scleropages in the Malay Peninsula (1932) (0)
The Probable Identity of Sphyraena chrysotaenia from the Red Sea and Arabia with S. aureoflamma from the Philippines, with Notes on Naso vomer and N. Lopezi (1940) (0)
California Records of the Western Spade-Foot Toad (1944) (0)
Fishes and Human Disease. (0)
A Caribbean Chaetodont Fish, Chaetodon eques Steindachner, Now Referred to Chaetodon aya Jordan (1959) (0)
A New Name for a Melanesian Pseudochromid Fish Confused with Nesiotes purpurascens De Vis (1932) (0)
SIA RU007317, Myers, George S (George Sprague) 1905-1985, George Sprague Myers Papers, circa 1903-1986 and undated (0)
Ascaphus truei in Humboldt County, California, with a Note on the Habits of the Tadpole (1931) (0)
Two New State Ichthyological Papers@@@The Distribution of Wisconsin Fishes@@@Annotated List of the Fishes of Illinois (1935) (0)
A New Gonostomatid Fish, Neophos nexilis, from the Philippines (1932) (0)
Documentation for SPSS and Peabody statistical packages (1981) (0)
Description of a new Cheirodontine Characin from Rio Janeiroä (1925) (0)
Poeciliid fishes of the genus Mollienisia in Hispaniola, with notice of a new Limia from the Samaná Peninsula. American Museum novitates ; no. 503 (1931) (0)
On a Recently Proposed New Family of Deep-Sea Fishes (Barbourisiidae, Parr, 1945) (1946) (0)
Description of a New Catfish from Abyssinia. Clarias depressus (1925) (0)
On the Indo-Australian fishes of the genus Scatophagusc with description of a new genusc Selenotoca (1936) (0)
The naturalist's lexicon : a list of classical Greek and Latin words used, or suitable for use, in biological nomenclature, with abridged English-classical supplement. (1944) (0)
Mostly about Museums. From the Papers of A. E. Parr (1960) (0)

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