August, 1992 CURRICULUM VITAE Robert Rush Miller Professor Emeritus of Biology Curator Emeritus of Fishes Museum of Zoology, The University of Michigan PERSONAL Born April 23, 1916, Colorado Springs, Colorado Married, 5 children; 10 grandchildren EDUCATION A.B. University of California (Berkeley), 1938, Zoology, cognate in Geology M.S. University of Michigan, 1943, Zoology Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1944, Zoology EXPERIENCE Research Assistant, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 1939-1944 Associate Curator of Fishes, Smithsonian Institution, 1944-1948 Associate Curator of Fishes, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 1948-1959; Curator, 1960-1986; Curator Emeritus, 1986- Assistant Professor of Zoology, Department of Zoology, University of Michigan, 1948- 1953; Associate Professor, 1954-1959; Professor, 1960-1986; Professor Emeritus of Biology, 1986- Ichthyological Editor, Copeia, 1950-1955 Editor, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 1958-1961; 1983-1986 Chairman, Freshwater Fish Group, I.U.C.N., 1965-1979, Member, 1979- Chairman, Fish Technical Committee, State of Michigan, 1974-1979 Chairman, Endangered Species Committee, American Fisheries Society, 1969-1971 Collaborator, National Park Service, 1960- Chairman, Desert Fishes Council, 1974-1976 Zoological Field Work, U.SA., Canada, Mexico, Central America, Australia, Japan, Africa, Seychelles SOCIETIES AAA.S. (Fellow, 1952) American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (President, 1965; Distinguished Fellow, 1990) Society of Systematic Zoology Society for the Study of Evolution American Fisheries Society Natural Resources Defense Council Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science (Honorary Member) Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters Nature Conservancy Southwestern Association of Naturalists Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Environmental Defense Fund American Quaternary Association American Institute of Biological Sciences American Killifish Association (Honorary Member) Desert Fishes Council Southeastern Fishes Council Society for Conservation Biology Sociedad Ictiologica Mexicana, A.C. (Founding member, 1988; Honorary Member, 1991) Sociedad Mexicana de Zoologia, A.C. (Honorary Member, 1990) Fundamat (FundaciOn Chiapaneca Miguel Alvarez del Toro para la Proteccion de la Naturaleza, A.C., Chiapas, Mexico (Honorary Member) CURRICULUM VITAE: Robert Rush Miller (continued) Page 2 HONORS Guggenheim Fellow, 1973-1974 Award of Excellence, American Fisheries Society, 1975 Honorary Member, La Sociedad Mexicana de Zoologia, 1989 Distinguished Fellow, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 1990 RESEARCH Classification and evolution of freshwater fishes Biogeography Hybridization of fishes Evolution of Cenozoic freshwater fishes Paleohydrology Endangered species PUBLICATIONS As of March 31, 1992, 338 papers, books (2), and reviews have been published. The following are a selected sample: 1948 The cyprinodont fishes of the Death Valley System of eastern California and southwestern Nevada. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 68:1-155. The zoological evidence: Correlation between fish distribution and hydrographic history in the desert basins of western United States. In: The Great Basin, with emphasis on glacial and postglacial times. Bull. Univ. Utah, 38(2), Biol. Ser., 10(7):17-166. (With C. L. Hubbs) 1953 Hybridization in nature between the fish genera Catostomus and Xyrauchen. Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts, and Letters, 38(1952):207-233. (With C. L. Hubbs) 1955 A systematic review of the Middle American fishes of the genus Profundulus. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 92:1-64. 1959 Origin and affmities of the freshwater fish fauna of western North America. In: C. L. Hubbs, ed., Zoogeography, Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci. Publ., 51(1958):187-222. 1961 Man and the changing fish fauna of the American Southwest. Pap. Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts, and Letters, 46(1960):365-404. Speciation rates in some fresh-water fishes of western North America. In: W. F. Blair, ed., Vertebrate Speciation. Univ. Texas Press, pp. 537-560. 1962 Ichthyology. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, pp. i-xii, 1-545. (With K. F. Lagler and J. E. Bardach) Second edition, 1977. 1965 Quaternary freshwater fishes of North America. In: E. H. Wright and D. C. Frey, eds., The Quaternary of the United States. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, New Jersey, pp. 569-581. 1966 Geographical distribution of Central American freshwater fishes. Copeia, 1966(4):773- 802. 1969 Freshwater fishes. Red Data Book, Vol. 4: Pisces. IUCN, Morges, Switzerland, 9 pp., 79 sheets. CURRICULUM VITAE: Robert Rush Miller (continued) Page 3 1971 Multiple sex chromosomes in a Mexican cyprinodontid fish. Nature, 231(5303):452-453. (With T. Uyeno) 1972 Threatened freshwater fishes of the United States. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc., 1O1(2):239- 252. Classification of the native trouts of Arizona with the description of a new species, Salmo apache. Copeia, 1972(3):401-422. 1974 Hydrographic history and relict fishes of the north-central Great Basin. Mem. California Acad. Sci., 7:1-259. (With C. L. Hubbs and L. C. Hubbs) Mexican species of the genus Heterandria subgenus Pseudo.uphophorus (Pisces: Poeciliidae). Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., 17(7):235-250. 1975 Five new species of Mexican poeciliid fishes of the genera Poecilia, Gambusia, and Poecihopsis. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 672:1-44. Climatic and biogeographic significance of a fish fauna from the late Pliocene-early Pleistocene of the Lake Chapala basin (Jalisco, Mexico). Univ. Michigan Mus. Paleo. Stud. Cenozoic Paleo. and Stratig., Pap. on Paleo. No. 12, (Hibbard Mem. Vol. 3):29- 38. (With M. L. Smith and T. M. Cavender) 1976 Geographical distribution of Central American freshwater fishes, with addendum. In: T. B. Thorson, ed., Investigations of the Ichthyofauna of Nicaraguan lakes. School of Life Sci., Univ. Nebraska-Lincoln, pp. 125-156. An evaluation of Seth E. Meek's contributions to Mexican ichthyology. Fieldiana, Zool., 69(1):1-31. Four new pupfishes of the genus Cyprinodon from Mexico, with a key to the C. eximius complex. Bull. So. California Acad. Sci., 75(2):68-75. 1977 Fishes and aquatic resources of the Death Valley system, California-Nevada, 1878-1976. U.S. Nat'l Park Serv., Western Region, San Francisco, 1977:1-27. (With D. L. Soltz and P. G. Sanchez) Cytotaxonomic study of gila trout, Salmo gilae. J. Fish. Res. Bd. Canada, 34(7):1041- 1045. (With R. J. Beamish) The desert pupfish fights for survival. In: Nigel Sitwell, ed., The World of Wildlife. Hamlyn Publ. Grp. Ltd., London, pp. 102-109. 1978 A revision of the Mexican cyprinid fish genus Algansea. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 155:1-72. (With C. D. Barbour) Composition and derivation of the native fish fauna of the Chihuahuan Desert region. U.S. Nat'l Park Serv. Trans. Proc. Ser., 3(1977):365-381. 1979 Ecology, habits and relationships of the Middle American cuatro ojos, Anableps dowi (Pisces: Anablepidae). Copeia, 1979(1):82-91. CURRICULUM VITAE: Robert Rush Miller (continued) Page 4 Species relationships among fishes of the genus Gila in the upper Colorado River drainage. U.S. Nat'l Park Serv. Trans. and Proc. Ser., 5:613-623. (With G. R. Smith and W. D. Sable) Freshwater fishes. Red Data Book, Vol. 4: Pisces. Rev. Ed. IUCN, Morges, Switzerland, 1977(= 1979), 16 pp., 194 sheets. 1980 Allodontichthys hubbsi, a new species of goodeid fish from southwestern Mexico. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 692:1-13. (With T. Uyeno) Systematics and variation of a new cyprinodontid fish, Cyprinodon fontinalis, from Chihuahua, Mexico. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 93(2):405-416. (With M. L. Smith) 1981 A remarkable species flock of pupfishes, genus Cyprinodon, from Yucatan, Mexico. Copeia, 1981(1):52-64. (With J. M. Humphries) Coevolution of deserts and pupfishes (genus Cyprinodon) in the American Southwest, pp. 39-94. In: Fishes in North American Deserts. R. J. Naiman and D. L. Soltz, eds. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 1982 Mexican freshwater silversides (Pisces: Atherinidae) of the genus Archomenidia, with the description of a new species. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 95(3):426-437. (With B. Chernoff) 1983 Taxonomic status of the plains killifish, Fundulus zebrinus. Copeia, 1983(1):55-67. (With S. Poss) Karyology of the cyprinodontoid fishes of the Mexican family Goodeidae. Copeia, 1983(2):497-510. (With T. Uyeno and J. M. Fitzsimons) Cichlid fishes (genus Cichlasoma) of the Rio Panuco basin, eastern Mexico, with description of a new species. Occ. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 104:1-24. (With J. N. Taylor) Checklist and key to the mollies of Mexico (Pisces: Poeciliidae: Poecilia, subgenus Mollienesia). Copeia, 1983(3):817-822. 1984 Rhamdia reddelli, new species, the first blind pimelodid catfish from Middle America, with a key to the Mexican species. Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., 20(8):135-143, figs. 1-4. Rhinichthys deaconi, a new species of dace (Pisces: Cyprinidae) from southern Nevada. Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 707:1-21, figs. 1-5. Redescription, variation, and zoogeography of the Mexican darter Etheostoma pottsi (Pisces: Percidae). SWern Nat., 29(4):395-402, figs. 1-2. (With Michael L. Smith and Jialcun Song) Cichlasonta socolofi, a new species of cichlid fish of the Thorichthys group from northern Chiapas, Mexico. Copeia, 1984(4):933-940, fig. 1. (With Jeffrey N. Taylor) CURRICULUM VITAE: Robert Rush Miller (continued) Page 5 Fish remains from Stanton's Cave, Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Arizona, with notes on the taxonomy of Gila cypha, pp. 58-65, figs. 1-3. In: Robert C. Euler, ed., The Archaeology, Geology, and Paleobiology of Stanton's Cave, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Grand Canyon Nat. Hist. Assoc. Monogr. 6. (With Gerald R. Smith) 1985 Taxonomy of fishes from Miocene Clarkia Lake beds, Idaho, pp. 75-83, figs. 1-3. In: C. J. Smiley, ed., Late Cenozoic History of the Pacific Northwest. AAAS Pac. Div., Symp. Vol., San Francisco, California. (With Gerald R. Smith) 1986 The evolution of the Rio Grande basin as inferred from its fish fauna, pp. 457-485, figs. 1-6 (Chapter 13). In: C. H. Hocutt and E. 0. Wiley, eds., The Zoogeography of North American Freshwater Fishes.