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George S. Myers

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742: 755: 748: 121:. Myers served as the scientific consultant for this seminal work in the aquarium literature and, after Innes retired, served as the editor for later editions. When Myers described the neon tetra in 1936, he named it 490:"Order Perciformes: Suborder Notothenoididei: Families Bovichtidae, Pseaudaphritidae, Elegopinidae, Nototheniidae, Harpagiferidae, Artedidraconidae, Bathydraconidae, Channichthyidae and Percophidae" 826: 42: 792: 831: 50: 474:, a new genus and species of scinciid lizard from Bougainville, Solomon Islands, with comments on the relationship of some lygosomine genera". 361: 451: 519: 836: 811: 714: 579: 785: 46: 778: 658: 467: 146: 75: 244: 70: 20: 176: 554:"Order CYPRINODONTIFORMES: Families POECILIIDAE, ANABLEPIDAE, VALENCIIDAE, APHANIIDAE and PROCATOPODIDAE" 142:
Pacific Expedition. He participated as a biologist in the U.S. Navy's 1947 Bikini Scientific Resurvey.
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Myers worked closely with fellow ichthyologist and Stanford Natural History Museum curator,
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as the man who first described numerous popular aquarium species such as the
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species. He is perhaps best known to aquarists for his collaborations with
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Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (12 April 2021).
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He was a prolific writer of papers and books and is well known to
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in honor of Innes. The species was later moved to the genus
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Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (26 October 2019).
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George Sprague Myers Papers, circa 1903-1986 and undated
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American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
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The fish has not been seen since 1983. 373: 294:, where it occurs in the basins of the 51:United States Fish and Wildlife Service 19:For the Ohio judge and legislator, see 362:Category:Taxa named by George S. Myers 138:He was an ichthyologist with the 1938 109:, which include dozens of widely kept 7: 737: 735: 161:his major interest was amphibians. 765:. You can help Knowledge (XXG) by 580:"ITIS - Report: Hypostomus myersi" 399:"Bikini Scientific Resurvey, 1947" 182:A genus of South Pacific lizards, 14: 444:The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles 832:20th-century American zoologists 753: 746: 740: 715:Smithsonian Institution Archives 403:Smithsonian Institution Archives 39:Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin 33:who spent most of his career at 249:is a likely extinct species of 542:"iucn status 20 November 2021" 1: 381:Cattell, Jaques, ed. (1949). 47:United States National Museum 37:. He served as the editor of 188:, was named in his honor by 175:, was named in his honor by 41:as well as president of the 416:Walford, Lionel A. (1970). 262:that was found only in the 157:In the scientific field of 117:who wrote the classic book 853: 734: 522:Gambusia georgei year-2019 454:. ("Myers, G.S.", p. 186). 18: 90:) and, most notably, the 837:American zoologist stubs 518:; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). 192:and Fred Parker in 1968. 153:Taxon named in his honor 147:Margaret Hamilton Storey 76:black-winged hatchetfish 812:American ichthyologists 204:is a species of marine 88:Microgeophagus ramirezi 71:Hyphessobrycon flammeus 21:George S. Myers (judge) 699:Exotic Aquarium Fishes 355:Taxon described by him 177:Edward Harrison Taylor 119:Exotic Aquarium Fishes 94:. He also erected the 16:American ichthyologist 219:. 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Index

George S. Myers (judge)
ichthyologist
Stanford University
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
United States National Museum
United States Fish and Wildlife Service
Brazilian Government
aquarists
flame tetra
Hyphessobrycon flammeus
black-winged hatchetfish
ram cichlid
neon tetra
genera
Aphyosemion
Fundulopanchax
killifish
William T. Innes
Paracheirodon
Allan Hancock
Margaret Hamilton Storey
herpetology
genus
Myersophis
Edward Harrison Taylor
Geomyersia
Allen E. Greer
Chionodraco myersi
ray-finned fish
family

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