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Full Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D. Marine Biology, 1977, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego
B.S. Zoology, 1967, University of Texas at Austin

Research Interests

Systematics and early life history of teleost fishes, particularly acanthomorphs, with a central focus on comparative anatomy, ontogeny, phylogenetic reconstruction and classification.

Awards

Robert H. Gibbs Jr., Memorial Award for an Outstanding Body of Published Work in Systematic Ichthyology - July 2003. http://www.asih.org/gibbs

Distinguished Lecturer in Petrus Artedi Tricentennial Symposium on Ichthyology, Royal Academy of Sciences, Stockholm – September, 2005 http://artedi.nrm.se/fishbase_se/artedi_symposium.shtml

Recent Publications

Micklich, N.R., Tyler, J.C., Johnson, G.D., Swidnicka, E. and Bannikov, A.F. 2009. First fossil records of the tholichthys larval stage of butterfly fishes (Perciformes, Chaetodontidae), from the Oligocene of Europe, Palaeontologische Zeitschrift, 83(4):479-497

Yamanoue, Y., Johnson, G.D. and Starnes, W.C. 2009. Redescription of a poorly known acropomatid, Verilus sordidus Poey 1860, and comparison with Neoscombrops atlanticus Mochizuki and Sano 1984 (Teleostei: Perciformes), Ichthyological Research, 56(4):400-406

Johnson, G.D., Paxton, J.R., Sutton, T.T., Satoh, T.P., Sado, T., Nishida, M. and Miya, M. 2009. Deep-sea mystery solved: astonishing larval transformations and extreme sexual dimorphism unite three fish families, Biology Letters, 5(2):235-239

Hilton, E.J., Britz, R., Johnson, G.D. and Forey, P.L. 2007. Clarification of the Occipito-vertebral Region of Arapaima gigas (Osteoglossomorpha: Osteoglossidae) through Developmental Osteology, Copeia, 2007(1):218-224

Smith, D.G. and Johnson, G.D. 2007. A New Species of Pteropsaron (Teleostei: Trichonotidae: Hemerocoetinae) from the Western Pacific, with Notes on Related Species, Copeia, 2007(2):364-377

Hilton, E.J. and Johnson, G.D. 2007. When two equals three: developmental osteology and homology of the caudal skeleton in carangid fishes (Perciformes: Carangidae), Evolution and Development, 9(2):178-189

Konstantinidis, P., Britz, R. and Johnson, G.D. 2007. Ontogeny of the beak of the gymnodonts and fixation of the ethmopalatine articulation (Teleostei, Tetraodontiformes), Journal of Morphology, 268(12):1095-1095

Orrell, T.M., Collette, B.B. and Johnson, G.D. 2006. Molecular data support separate scombroid and xiphioid clades, Bulletin of Marine Science, 79(3):505-519