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Priocharax Varii
''Priocharax'' is a genus of characins, very small freshwater fish from the Amazon basin, Amazon and Orinoco basins in tropical South America. Species There are currently nine recognized species in this genus: * ''Priocharax ariel'' Stanley Howard Weitzman, S. H. Weitzman & Richard Peter Vari, Vari, 1987 * ''Priocharax britzi'' Mattox, Souza, Toledo-Piza & Oliveira, 2021 * ''Priocharax conwayi'' Mattox, Lima, Britz, Souza & Oliveira, 2024 * ''Priocharax marupiara'' Mattox, Britz, Souza, Casas, Lima & Oliveira, 2023 * ''Priocharax nanus'' Mônica Toledo-Piza, Toledo-Piza, George M. T. Mattox, Mattox & Ralf Britz, Britz, 2014 * ''Priocharax phasma'' Mattox, Lima, Britz, Souza & Oliveira, 2024 * ''Priocharax pygmaeus'' Stanley Howard Weitzman, S. H. Weitzman & Richard Peter Vari, Vari, 1987 * ''Priocharax toledopizae'' Mattox, Britz, Souza, Casas, Lima & Oliveira, 2023 * ''Priocharax varii'' Mattox, Souza, Toledo-Piza, Britz & Oliveira, 2020 References Characini Taxa named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Howard Weitzman
Stanley Howard Weitzman (born March 16, 1927, in Mill Valley, California; died February 16, 2017) was a Research Scientist Emeritus at Division of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. Life and career 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. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |