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Education

Ph.D. 1962, Stanford University
B.S. 1957, George Washington University

Research Interests

Systematics, morphology, and phylogeny of fossil and extant tetradontiforms, zeiforms, and acanthuroid fishes; behavioral ecology of chaenopsid blennies.

Selected Publications

Tyler, J.C. 1968. A monograph on plectognath fishes of the Superfamily Triacanthoidea. Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 16:1 364, 209 figs.

Tyler, J.C. 1980. Osteology, phylogeny, and higher classification of the fishes of the Order Plectognathi (Tetraodontiformes). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Technical Report, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Circular 434:1 422, 326 figs.

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 Contributions to Zoology, 485:1-78, 50 figs.

Tyler, J.C., and L. Sorbini. 1996. New superfamily and three new families of tetraodontiform fishes from the Upper Cretaceous: the earliest and most morphologically primitive plectognaths. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, 82:1-59, 25 figs.

Smith, C.L., J.C. Tyler, H. Andreyko, and D.M. Tyler. 1998. Behavioral ecology of the sailfin blenny, Emblemaria pandionis (Pisces: Chaenopsidae), in the Caribbean off Belize. American Museum Novitates, 3232:1-40, 27 figs.

Tyler, J.C., and D.M. Tyler. 1999. Natural history of the sea-fan blenny, Emblemariopsis pricei (Teleostei: Chaenopsidae), in the western Caribbean. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 601:1-24, 7 figs., 1 plate.

Tyler, J.C., and F. Santini. 2002. Review and reconstructions of the tetraodontiform fishes from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy, with comments on related Tertiary taxa. Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Studi e Ricerche sui Giacimenti Terziari di Bolca, 9:47-119, 30 figs.

Tyler, J.C., B. O'Toole, and R. Winterbottom. 2003. Phylogeny of the genera and families of zeiform fishes, with comments on their relationships with tetraodontiforms and caproids. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 681:1-110, 90 figs.

Santini, F. and J.C. Tyler. 2003. A phylogeny of the families of fossil and extant tetraodontiform fishes (Acanthomorpha, Tetraodontiformes), Upper Cretaceous to Recent. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 139:565-617, 5 figs.

Tyler, J.C., and F. Santini. 2005. A phylogeny of the fossil and extant zeiform-like fishes, Upper Cretaceous to Recent, with comments on the putative zeomorph clade (Acanthomorpha). Zoologica Scripta, 34(2):157-175, 9 figs.