John Ernest Randall

John Ernest "Jack" Randall (May 22, 1924 – April 26, 2020) was an American

In 2005 he was awarded the first Bleeker Award in Systematic Ichthyology at the Seventh Indo-Pacific Fish Conference in Taipei, Taiwan.[7]^[10][11]

Works

• Fishes of the Gilbert Islands, Atoll Res. Bull. 1955, No. 47 (xi - 243 pp.), Pac. Sci, Bd., Nat. Acad. Sci., Wash D. C.
• A Contribution to the Biology of the Acanthuridae (Surgeon Fishes) (1955, in Issue 10 of Theses for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University of Hawaii (Honolulu))
• A review of the labrid fish genus Labroides, with descriptions of two new species and notes on ecology. Pac. Sci.
• Let a Sleeping Shark Lie, 1961
• Three New Butterflyfishes (chaetodontidae) from Southeast Oceania, 1975
• (with Henri Lavondès) Les noms de poissons marquisiens, 1978
• (with Roger Lubbock) Three New Labrid Fishes of the Genus Cirrhilabrus from the Southwestern Pacific (in Volume 25, Issue 2 of Occasional papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History, Bishop Museum Press, 1982)
• Caribbean Reef Fishes, 1983
• Pomacanthus Rhomboides (Gilchrist and Thompson), the Valid Name for the South African Angelfish Previously Known as Pomacanthus Striatus (J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, 1988,
  ISBN 9780868101729
  )
• Coastal Fishes of Oman (1995;
  ISBN 0824818083
  )
• Shore Fishes of Hawaii (1996;
  ISBN 9780939560219
  )
• Annoted Checklist of the Inshore Fishes of the Ogasawara Islands (in Volume 11 of National Science Museum monographs, National Science Museum, 1997)
• (with Phillip C. Heemstra) Review of the Indo-Pacific Fish Genus Odontanthias (Serranidae: Anthiinae), with Descriptions of Two New Species and a Related New Genus in Volume 38 of Indo-Pacific fishes, Bishop Museum, 2006
• (with Jeffrey W. Johnson) Revision of the soleid fish genus Pardachirus, in Indo-Pacific fishes, Bishop Museum, 2007
• (with William N Eschmeyer) Revision of the Indo-Pacific Scorpionfish Genus Scorpaenopsis: With Descriptions of Eight New Species in Indo-Pacific fishes
• Revision of the Goatfish Genus Parupeneus (Perciformes: Mullidae) with Descriptions of Two New Species in Indo-Pacific fishes
• (with Phillip C. Heemstra) Review of the Indo-Pacific Fishes of the Genus Odontanthias (Serranidae: Anthiinae), with Descriptions of Two New Species and a Related New Genus in Indo-Pacific fishes
• (with Margaret M. Smith) A review of the Labrid fishes of the Genus Halichoeres of the Western Indian Ocean, with descriptions of six new species in Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 45. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology,
  ISBN 0868100714
  )
• (with David W. Greenfield) A preliminary review of the Indo-Pacific Gobiid fishes of the genus Gnatholepis in Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 69. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology,
  ISSN 0073-4381
  )
• Parenti, P. and J.E. Randall, 2000. An annotated checklist of the species of the labroid fish families Labridae and Scaridae. Ichthyol. Bull. J.L.B. Smith Inst. Ichthyol. (68):1-97.

• See Category:Taxa named by John Ernest Randall

Taxa named in his honor

Randall has had over 60 taxa named in his honor, among them are:^[12]

• Randall's snapper,
  ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It is native to the Indo-Pacific region.^[13]
• Acanthopagrus randalli, Middle East Black Seabream, Iwatsuki & Carpenter, 2009
• Gymnothorax randalli, Randall's moray D. G. Smith & E. B. Böhlke, 1997
• Plectranthias randalli Fourmanoir & Rivaton, 1980 is a species of fish in the family Serranidae occurring in the Western Pacific Ocean.^[14]