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Universtty Microfilms International 300 N A REVISION OF THE EASTERN PACIFIC SPECIES OF THE GOBIID FISH GENUS CHRIOLEPIS (TELEOSTEI: GOBIOIDEI) (MEXICO, LATIN AMERICA). Item Type text; Dissertation-Reproduction (electronic) Authors FINDLEY, LLOYD TALBOTT. Publisher The University of Arizona. Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. Download date 06/10/2021 14:29:11 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186958 INFORMATION TO USERS This reproduction was made from a copy of a document sent to us for microfilming. While the most advanced technology has been used to photograph and reproduce this document. the quality of the reproduction is heavily dependent upon the quality of the material submitted. 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Zeeb Road Ann Arbor, MI481 06 8323741 Findley, Lloyd Talbott A REVISION OF THE EASTERN PACIFIC SPECIES OF THE GOBIID FISH GENUS CHRIOLEPIS (TELEOSTEI: GOBIOIDEI) The University of Arizona PH.D. 1983 University Microfilms International 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI48106 PLEASE NOTE: In all cases this material has been filmed in the best possible way from the available copy. Problems encountered with this document have been identified here with a checl< mark_-I_. 1. Glossy photographs or pages V 2. Colored illustrations, paper or print~ 3. Photographs with dark background ~. 4. Illustrations are poor copy __ 5. Pages with black mari<s, not original copy __ 6. Print shows through as there is text on both sides of page __ 7. Indistinct, brol<en or small print on several pages __ 8. Print exceeds margin requirements __ 9. Tightly bound copy with print lost in spine __ 10. Computer printout pages with indistinct print __ 11. 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Other____________________________ _ University Microfilms International A REVISION OF THE EASTERN PACIFIC SPECIES OF THE GOBIID FISH GENUS CHRIOLEPIS (TELEOSTEI: GOBIOIDEI) by Lloyd Talbott Findley A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In the Graduate College THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA 1 983 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA GP~DUATE COLLEGE As members of the Final Examination Committee, we certify that we have read the dissertation prepared by Lloyd Talbott Findley entitled A Revision of the Eastern Pacific Species of the Gobiid Fish Genus Chriolepis (Teleostei: Gobioidei) and recommend that it be accepted as fulfilling the dissertation requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Date Date Date Date Date Final approval and acceptance of this dissertation is continsent upon the candidate's submission of the final copy of the dissertation to the Graduate College. I hereby certify that I have read this dissertation prepared under my direction and recommend that it be accepted as fulfilling the dissertation requirement. -D-i-s-s-e-r-t-a-t-1~'o~n~~ctor~·.7fdW'~ Date STATEMENT BY AUTHOR This dissertation has bee~ submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for an\?dvanced degree at The University of Arizona and is deposi~ed in the University Library to be ~ade available to. borrowers under rules of the Library. Brief quotations from this dissertation are allow­ able without special permission, proyided that accurate acknowledgment of source is made. R~quests for permission for extended quotation from or reproduction of this manu­ script in whole or in part may be granted by the head of the major department or the Dean of the Graduate College when in his judgment the proposed use of the material is in the interests of scholarship. In all other instances, however, permission must be obtained from the author. SIGNED: ACK.NOHLEDGMENTS Sincere gratitude is extended to the members of my dissertation committee, Drs. Donald A. Thomson, John R. Hendrickson, and Charles H. Lowe. I thank all of them for many lessons, courtesies, support, helpful advice, and, above all, for their patience and friendship. Donald Thomson has offered continued support and encouragement, over several years, both in the university and in the field. John Hendrickson "cracked-the-whip" at a critical time, for which I thank him. Charles Lowe, also at a critical time, offered valuable discussions on ecological and evolutionary thoughts, greatly aiding synthesis of my ideas along these lines. For expanding my thinking and horizons along lines not strictly biological, I thank the members of my minor (Anthropology) committee, T. Patrick Culbert and the late Thomas B. Hinton, a professor and friend whom I dearly miss. Other friends associated with The University of Arizona who encouraged and helped me in many ways receive my gratitude: Nick Yensen (for protean assistance with this dissertation in its final stages, and for drafting the graphs appearing in Appendix B); Charles Lehner (for valuable discussions on ichthyological and statistical iii iv matters, and for the map constituting Fig. 34); and Christine Flanagan, Matt Gilligan, Chris Petersen, and Phil Hastings (for other valuable discussions and assis­ tance, including helping to keep me registered at this university). Recent valuable data, discussions on, and insights into gobiid systematics have been generously afforded by Phil Hastings who also read and improved several parts of this dissertation. I thank those per­ sons at The University of Arizona who have variously helped with field collections, provided specimens and/or data on them, and photographs or illustrations: Matt Gilligan, Nick Yensen, Jeff Leis, Dave Lindquist, Bill Reynolds, Paul Winkler, Manuel Molles, Alex Kerstitch, Don and Jenean Thomson, Mike Robinson, Christine Flanagan, Doug Peacock, Felipe Maldonado, and Phil Hastings. For continued encouragement and friendship, a soft spot in my heart is held by my fellow original "PECkers": Elaine Synder-Conn, Roy Houston, Nick Yensen, and especially Rick Brusca. In the initial stages of research leading to this dissertation, Doug Hoese offered valuable assistance and data on gobiid systematics, and I thank him (and Ray Birdsong, for much of the same). Many thanks are also extended to my former profes­ sor, Boyd H. Walker, for teaching me much about ichthyology and introducing me to gobioid systematics, for providing v the outline map of the Gulf of California used herein, and for providing me with free access to his ichthyological library and research space at UCLA during a time critical to the completion of this study. Also, at that time, Jeff Seigel readily shared his laboratory space and warm friend­ ship, and Bob Putnam greatly assisted with the mechanics of the statistical analyses (with his professor, Malcolm Gordon, kindly providing the computer time). Besides those persons at The University of Arizona already mentioned, I thank the curators, staffs, and associates of the various institutions for providing me with loans or access to specimens of Chriolepis and com­ parative material, for help in locating collection data, for photographs and/or radiographs, and numerous other courtesies: Boyd Walker, Wayne Baldwin, John Bleck, and Jeff Seigel at the University of California, Los Angeles; Dick Rosenblatt, the late Don Dockins, Joe Copp, and Doug Hoese at Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Bob Lavenberg Carom Swift, Jerry Neumann, and Larry Reynolds at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; Bill Bussing at the Universidad de Costa Rica; Bill Eschmeyer, Lilian Dempster, and John McCosker at the California Academy of Sciences; the late James Bohlke, Genie Bohlke, and Bill Saul at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; Carter Gilbert of the Florida State Museum; C. Richard Robins of the University of Miami; C. E. Dawson of the Gulf vi Coast Research Laboratory; and Victor Springer, Susan Jewett, and Frank McKinney at the National Museum of Natural History. Travel and subsistence grants allowing me to examine several important specimens were kindly arranged by Victor Springer, James Bohlke, Don Thomson, and John Hendrickson; the latter also making possible (in a diffi­ cult situation) an important collecting trip to Oaxaca, Mexico.
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