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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

Selected Publications

Johnson, G. D. 1984. Percoidei: development and relationships. In Ontogeny and Systematics of Fishes (H.G. Moser et al.,eds.). Special Publication no. 1, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, pp.464-498.

Tyler, J. C., G. D. Johnson, I. Nakamura, and B. B. Collette. 1989 . Morphology of Luvarus imperialis (Luvaridae), with a phylogenetic analysis of the Acanthuroidei (Pisces). Smithsonian Contrib. Zool. 485: 1-78. Johnson, G. D. 1992. Monophyly of the euteleostean clades - Neoteleostei, Eurypterygii, and Ctenosquamata. Copeia 1992: 8-25.

Johnson, G. D. 1993. Percomorph phylogeny: progress and problems. Bull. Mar. Sci. 52 (1): 3-28.

Johnson, G. D. and E. B. Brothers. 1993. Schindleria: a paedomorphic goby. Bull. Mar. Sci. 52 (1): 441-471.

Johnson, G. D. and C. Patterson. 1993. Percomorph phylogeny: a survey of acanthomorphs and a new proposal. Bull. Mar. Sci. 52 (1): 554-626.

Patterson, C. and G. D. Johnson. 1995. The intermuscular bones and ligaments of teleostean fishes. Smithsonian Contrib. Zool: 1-83.

Johnson, G. D. and C. Patterson. 1996. Relationships of lower euteleostean fishes. In "Interrelationships of Fishes" (M. L. J. Stiassny, L. Parenti, and G. D. Johnson, Britz, R. and G. D. Johnson. 2002. “Paradox Lost”: Skeletal ontogeny of the paradox fish, Indostomus paradoxus and its significance for the phylogenetic relationships of Indostomidae (Teleostei:Gasterosteiformes). Am. Mus. Novit. 3383: 1-36.eds.), pp 251-332. Academic Press, New York.

Springer, V. G. and G. D. Johnson. 2004. Study of the dorsal gill-arch musculature of teleostome fishes, with special reference to the Actinopterygii. Bull. Bio. Soc. Wash., 11: 260pp., 205 Pl.

Britz, R. and G. D. Johnson. 2005. Leis' Conundrum: Homology of the Clavus of the Ocean Sunfishes. 1. On¬togeny of the Median Fins and Axial Skeleton of Monotrete leiurus (Teleostei, Tetraodontiformes, Tetraodontidae) Journal of Morphology, 266(1): 1-10.

Johnson, G.D. and R. Britz. 2005. Leis' Conundrum: Homology of the Clavus of the Ocean Sunfishes. 2. Ontogeny of the Median Fins and Axial Skeleton of Ranzania laevis (Teleostei, Tetraodontiformes, Molidae) Journal of Morphology, 266(1): 11-21.