George S. Myers
George Sprague Myers (February 2, 1905 – November 4, 1985) was an American
Brazilian Government
.
He was a prolific writer of papers and books and is well known to
genera Aphyosemion and Fundulopanchax, which include dozens of widely kept killifish species. He is perhaps best known to aquarists for his collaborations with William T. Innes who wrote the classic book Exotic Aquarium Fishes. 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 Hyphessobrycon innesi in honor of Innes. The species was later moved to the genus Paracheirodon
and is now known as Paracheirodon innesi.
He was an ichthyologist with the 1938 Allan Hancock Pacific Expedition. He participated as a biologist in the U.S. Navy's 1947 Bikini Scientific Resurvey.[1][2]
Myers worked closely with fellow ichthyologist and Stanford Natural History Museum curator, Margaret Hamilton Storey.[3]
Taxon named in his honor
In the scientific field of herpetology his major interest was amphibians.
- A genus of Philippine snake, Myersophis, was named in his honor by Edward Harrison Taylor in 1963.[4]
- A genus of South Pacific lizards, Geomyersia, was named in his honor by Allen E. Greer and Fred Parker in 1968.[5]
- crocodile icefishes. It is found in the Southern Ocean.[6]
- The San Marcos gambusia (Gambusia georgei) C. Hubbs & Peden, 1969 is a likely extinct species of Gambusia from the family Poeciliidae that was found only in the San Marcos Springs of Central Texas.[7] The fish has not been seen since 1983.[8][9]
Taxon described by him
References
- ^ Cattell, Jaques, ed. (1949). American Men of Science: A Biographical Dictionary. Lancaster, Pennsylvania: The Science Press. p. 1791.
- ^ "Bikini Scientific Resurvey, 1947". Smithsonian Institution Archives.
- ^ Walford, Lionel A. (1970). "On the Natural History of George Sprague Myers". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Fourth Series. 38 (1): 1-18.
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Myers, G.S.", p. 186).
- ^ Greer, Allen E.; Parker, Fred (1968). "Geomyersia glabra, a new genus and species of scinciid lizard from Bougainville, Solomon Islands, with comments on the relationship of some lygosomine genera". Breviora (302): 1-17.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (12 April 2021). "Order Perciformes: Suborder Notothenoididei: Families Bovichtidae, Pseaudaphritidae, Elegopinidae, Nototheniidae, Harpagiferidae, Artedidraconidae, Bathydraconidae, Channichthyidae and Percophidae". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Gambusia georgei" in FishBase. August 2006 version.
- ^ "iucn status 20 November 2021"
- ^ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (26 October 2019). "Order CYPRINODONTIFORMES: Families POECILIIDAE, ANABLEPIDAE, VALENCIIDAE, APHANIIDAE and PROCATOPODIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
Further reading
- Innes WT (1966). Exotic Aquarium Fishes (19th ed.). Maywood, New Jersey: Metaframe.
External links
- Smithsonian Institution Archives
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