Larry Page

Ph.D. University of Illinois, 1972
Curator of Fishes, FLMNH
Division of Fishes

Dickinson Hall
Florida Museum of Natural History
Gainesville, FL 32611
voice: (352) 337-6649
lpage1@ufl.edu

Research Interest

Systematics, evolution, and ecology of freshwater fishes; protection of aquatic natural areas. Current research emphasis is on phylogenetic relationships, evolution of reproductive behaviors, and speciation processes that have led to the diversity of freshwater organisms.

Students Currently Supervised

Jeremy Wright (M.S. in Zoology)
Systematic revision of Lake Tanganyikan Synodontis (Mochokidae)

Alfred Thomson (M.S. in Zoology)
Systematic revision of sisorid and erethistid catfishes.

Representative Publications

Page, L. M. 1983. Handbook of Darters. T.F.H., Inc., Neptune City, N.J. 271 p.

Page, L. M. and B. M. Burr. 1991. A Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes of North America North of Mexico. The Peterson Field Guide Series, Houghton-Mifflin Co., Boston, MA.

Knouft, J. H., L. M. Page, and M. J. Plewa. 2003. Antimicrobial egg cleaning: a novel form of parental care in fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 1531:2405-2412.

Knouft, J. H. and L. M. Page. 2003. The evolution of body size in extant groups of North American freshwater fishes: Speciation, size distributions, and Cope?s Rule. American Naturalist 161:413-421.

Page, L. M., M. Hardman, and T. J. Near. 2003. Phylogenetic relationships of barcheek Darters (Percidae: Etheostoma, Subgenus Catonotus) with descriptions of two new species. Copeia 2003:512-530.