Thomas J. Near

Thomas J. Near, U.S. ichthyologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 3 taxon names authored by Thomas J. Near

plus:

• clade Ovalentaria Smith & Near, in Wainwright et al., 2012: 1027
• Etheostoma basilare Page, Hardman & Near, 2003
• Etheostoma derivativum Page, Hardman, & Near, 2003
• Etheostoma starnesi (Keck & Near, 2013)
• Percina williamsi Page & Near, 2007
• Pogonophryne stewarti Eakin, Eastman & Near, 2009

Publications

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• Near, T.J. 2002. Acanthocephalan phylogeny and the evolution of parasitism. Integrative and Comparative Biology 42(3): 668–677. DOI: 10.1093/icb/42.3.668
• Near, T.J., Eytan, R.I., Dornburg, A., Kuhn, K.L., Moore, J.A., Davis, M.P., Wainwright, P.C., Friedman, M. & Smith, W.L. 2012. Resolution of ray-finned fish phylogeny and timing of diversification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109(34): 13698–13703. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206625109
• Near, T.J., Garey, J.R. & Nadler, S.A. 1998. Phylogenetic relationships of the Acanthocephala inferred from 18S ribosomal DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 10(3): 287–298. DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1998.0569
• Wainwright, P.C., Smith, W.L., Price, S.A., Tang, K.L., Ferry, L.A., Sparks, J.S. & Near, T.J. 2012. The evolution of pharyngognathy: a phylogenetic and functional appraisal of the pharyngeal jaw key innovation in labroid fishes and beyond. Systematic biology 61(6): 1001–1027. (PDF) DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/sys060 Reference page. 
• Dornburg, A., Moore, J.A., Webster, R., Warren, D.L., Brandley, M.C., Iglesias, T.L., Wainwright, P.C. & Near, T.J. 2012. Molecular phylogenetics of squirrelfishes and soldierfishes (Teleostei: Beryciformes: Holocentridae): reconciling more than 100 years of taxonomic confusion. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65(2): 727–738. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.07.020 Reference page. 
• Keck, B.P. & Near, T.J. 2013. A New Species of Nothonotus Darter (Teleostei: Percidae) from the Caney Fork in Tennessee, USA. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 54(1): 3–21. DOI: 10.3374/014.054.0101 Reference page. 
• Near, T.J., Dornburg, A., Tokita, M., Suzuki, D., Brandley, M.C. & Friedman, M. 2014. Boom and bust: ancient and recent diversification in bichirs (Polypteridae: Actinopterygii), a relictual lineage of ray-finned fishes. Evolution 68(4): 1014–1026. DOI: 10.1111/evo.12323 Reference page. 
• Near, T.J. & Thomas, M.R. 2015. A New Barcheek Darter Species from Buck Creek (Cumberland River System), Kentucky (Percidae: Etheostomatinae: Catonotus: Oopareia). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 56(2): 127–146. DOI: 10.3374/014.056.0202 Reference page. 
• Dornburg, A., Eytan, R.I., Federman, S., Pennington, J.N., Stewart, A.L., Jones, C.D. & Near, T.J. 2015. Molecular data support the existence of two species of the Antarctic fish genus Cryodraco (Channichthyidae). Polar Biology 39(8): 1369–1379. DOI: 10.1007/s00300-015-1859-9 Reference page. 

Links

• Thomas J. Near, Faculty page. Near Lab, Yale University.