John Paxton (ichthyologist)

John Richard Paxton
Born(1938-01-16)January 16, 1938
DiedOctober 29, 2023(2023-10-29) (aged 85)
Alma materUniversity of Southern California[2]
Known forCurator of the Australian Museum's fish collection; President of Australian Society for Fish Biology
SpouseHannelore Paxton[3]
AwardsK. Radway Allen Award[1]
Scientific career
ThesisEvolution In The Oceanic Midwaters: Comparative Osteology And Relationships Of The Lanternfishes (Family Myctophidae) (1968)
Doctoral advisorJay Savage[2]

John Richard Paxton (16 January 1938 – 29 October 2023) was a United States-born Australian ichthyologist, who spent most of his career at the Australian Museum. He has a particular research interest in lanternfishes (family Myctophidae) and other deep-sea fishes.[4] Paxton is a founding member of the Australian Society for Fish Biology and received the society's K. Radway Allen Award in 1997.[2]

  1. ^ "K. Radway Allen Award", Australian Society for Fish Biology, official website. Accessed 25 July 2019.
  2. ^ a b c Leis, Jeff. "John Richard Paxton". Australian Society for Fish Biology. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference :4 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ McGrouther, Mark A. (2006). Tomida, Y. (ed.). "Ichthyology at the Australian Museum: Collections, Databases and the Web". National Science Museum Monographs. 34 (Proceedings of the 7th and 8th Symposia on Collection Building and Natural History Studies in Asia and the Pacific Rim): 103–116.