Stanley Howard Weitzman (born March 16, 1927, in Mill Valley, California; died February 16, 2017)[1] was a Research Scientist Emeritus at Division of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.[2]
He received his Bachelor's (1951) and Master's (1953) degrees in biology from the University of California, Berkeley, and his PhD (1960) from Stanford University as a student of the venerable killifish expert, George Sprague Myers. Weitzman began his long and distinguished career as a Curator in the Division of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History, in 1962. At that time he moved from California with his wife Marilyn and their two children.[3]
Awards and recognition
Weitzman's outstanding research was recognized by his peers: he received the Robert H. Gibbs Jr. Memorial Award for Excellence in Systematic Ichthyology for an outstanding body of published work in systematic ichthyology from the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in 1991, and was honored at an international symposium on neotropical fishes in Brazil with an award for his "Invaluable Contributions to Neotropical Ichthyology" in 1997.[citation needed]
Stanley H. Weitzman; Richard P. Vari (1987). "Two new species and a new genus of miniature Characid Fishes (Teleostei: Characiformes) from Northern South America". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 100: 640–652.[5]
Fink W.L., Weitzman S.H. 1974. The so-called cheirodontin fishes of Central America with descriptions of two new species (Pisces: Characidae). Smithsonian Contrib. Zool. 172: 1–46
Menezes N.A., Weitzman S.H. 1990. Two new species of Mimagoniates (Teleostei: Characidae: Glandulocaudinae), their phylogeny and biogeography and a key to the glandulocaudin fishes of Brazil and Paraguay. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 103(2): 380–426.
Weitzman S.H. 1962. The osteology of Brycon meeki, a generalized characid fish, with an osteological definition of the family. Stanford Ichthyol. Bull. 8(1): 1–77.
Weitzman S.H., Vari R.P. 1987. Two new species and a new genus of miniature characid fishes (Teleostei: Characiformes) from Northern South America. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 100(3): 640–652.
Weitzman S.H., Vari R.P. 1988. Miniaturization in South American freshwater fishes: an overview and discussion. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 101(2): 444–465.
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