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.
The Lake Rukwa lampeye is a species of fish in the family Poeciliidae. Its natural habitats are intermittent rivers, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes. It is threatened by habitat loss. This species occurs in central Africa in Lake Rukwa, Tanzania, the Malagarasi River, Wembere River system and the upper basin of the Congo River. Its specific name honours the German physician and zoologist Friedrich Fülleborn (1866-1933), who collected the type.
The eastcoast lampeye is a species of fish in the family Poeciliidae. It is endemic to coastal Kenya and Tanzania, where found in brackish water, mangrove swamps, pools, lagoons and river deltas. It reaches up to 5 cm (2.0 in) in total length. This fish was described by Ernst Ahl as Haplochilichthys stuhlmanni with the type locality given as Tanganyika Territory. The specific name honours the co-leader of the German East Africa Expedition (1889-1892) on which type was collected, Franz Ludwig Stuhlmann (1863-1928) of the German Colonial Service.
Cubanichthys is a small genus of pupfishes endemic to the Caribbean Islands of Cuba and Jamaica. The name of this genus is a compound of Cuba, where the genus was thought to be endemic until C. pengellyi was placed in the genus, and the Greek word for fish, ichthys.
Floridichthys is a genus of pupfishes native to the southeastern United States, Mexico and northern Central America. The name of this genus is a compound of Florida and the Greek for "fish", ichthys. The ichthyologist Carl Leavitt Hubbs thought that the genus was confined to Florida at the time he coined the name.
Alfaro is a genus of poeciliid fishes endemic to Central America. The generic name honours the Costa Rican archaeologist, geologist, ethnologist, zoologist and Director of the National Museum of Costa Rica, Anastasio Alfaro (1865-1951).
The pike topminnow, more commonly known as pike killifish and sometimes referred to as topminnow, is a species of poeciliid found from Mexico to Nicaragua. It has also been introduced to Florida, USA. It is the only known member of its genus. The pike topminnow was described in 1860 by Austrian ichthyologist Rudolf Kner, who gave the type locality as Belize, which is reflected in this species' specific name.
Xiphophorus nezahualcoyotl, the mountain swordtail, is a live bearing fish in the family Poeciliidae. It is endemic to the northwestern Pánuco River basin in Mexico. The specific name of this fish refers to the poet, philosopher and emperor of Texcoco, Nezahualcoyotl (1402-1472).
The Dead Sea toothcarp is a species of toothcarp in the family Aphaniidae that is endemic to the Dead Sea basin. It is threatened by water fluctuation, and the introduction of cichlids and Gambusia. The specific name of this fish honours the Scottish surgeon and naturalist John Richardson (naturalist) (1787-1865) who first reported killifish in the Dead Sea basin. The Dead Sea toothcarp has been on the Red List of the International Union for Conversation of Nature since 2006.
Tlaloc is a genus of fish in the family Profundulidae endemic to Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. The genus is not, however, recognised by Fishbase or in the 5th Edition of Fishes of the World. The genus is named for Tlaloc the water god of the Aztecs.
Valencia robertae is a species of Mediterranean killifish, from the family Valenciidae. It is endemic to Greece where it is found in the Lower Pinios and lower Mornos Rivers in Greece. The species was described in 2004 with the type locality given as River Pinios south of Kavasila. The specific name honours the Italian ichthyologist Roberta Barbieri of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research in Athens.
The Nile killifish, also known as the Nile lampeye, is a species of killifish from the family Poeciliidae. It is found in the White Nile drainage in Sudan, the Nile Delta in Egypt, the Wembere and Malagarasi Rivers in Tanzania and in the Lake Victoria basin in Uganda and Tanzania. However, it is thought to have been extirpated from Egypt, the introduction of alien poecilid fish, agricultural pollution and increasing salinity are all thought to have contributed to its local extinction in the Nile Delta.
William Leonard Stevenson Loat, the son of William L. and Marianna Eliza Stevenson. was a British archaeologist, naturalist and collector. Many of the objects he had collected from China, Egypt, Peru, Africa, Australia, Assam, Polynesia and North America were bequeathed to the British Museum in 1920 while her also donated some Australian items to the Plymouth City Museum. He often worked on excavations with Flinders Petrie, as well as being a member of the Egypt Excavation Fund. At some point he directed the excavations at Abydos. He first travelled to Egypt in 1899 as an assistant to the zoologist George Albert Boulenger of the British Museum on an ichthyological survey of the Nile. Later he took part in excavations at Gurob in 1903 for Petrie and at Abydos for the Egypt Excavation Fund in 1908-9 and 1912–13, He was responsible for finding and publishing a description of the Ibis Cemetery. The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 meant that he had to cease working in Egypt. He then married and took residence at Mevagissy, Cornwall where he pursued an interest in horticulture. He travelled to the Andes in 1927 and during the 1920s he presented some Egyptian objects to the Penzance Museum.
Alfaro huberi is a species of livebearer in the family Poeciliidae, in the New World subfamily Poeciliinae. It is found in clear, fast flowing streams in Central America where it has been recorded from Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. This fish was formally described in 1923 as Priapichthys huberi by Henry Weed Fowler with the type locality given as Marceligo Creek which is a tributary of the Río Tunky at Miranda in Nicaragua. The specific name honours the Curator of Mammals at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Wharton Huber (1877-1942), a colleague of Fowlers, who collected the type.
Poropanchax normani, also known as the Norman's lampeye, is a species of Poeciliidae native to Africa.
Pierre Brichard was a Belgian explorer and collector-exporter of African aquarium fishes, especially those of Lake Tanganyika.
Apricaphanius is a genus of killifishes in the family Aphaniidae, which are native to northern Africa and southern Europe. All species in the genus have very small distributions and are seriously threatened.
Esmaeilius is a genus of toothcarps in the family Aphaniidae. They are native to Iran and one species extending to Iraq. Most species in the genus have very small distributions and all are seriously threatened.
Paraphanius is a genus of killifishes in the family Aphaniidae, which are native to western Asia. Several species in the genus have very limited distribution and may be threatened.
Aphaniops is a genus of killifishes in the family Aphaniidae, which are native to Western Asia, Northeast Africa and east to southwest India. Several species in the genus have very limited distribution and may be threatened.
