Lynne R. Parenti

Lynne R. Parenti
Born1954
Manhattan, New York
NationalityAmerican
Alma materStony Brook University
CUNY Graduate Center
Known forIchthyology
Scientific career
InstitutionsSmithsonian Institution

Lynne R. Parenti (born 1954) is an American ichthyologist. She serves as a Research Scientist and Curator of Fishes at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution.[1][2] Her specialty is the systematics and historical biogeography of freshwater and coastal fishes, and she has conducted research in this area for about thirty years.

  1. ^ Tropical Fish Hobbyist. Vol. 43, Issues 9-10. T.F.H. Publications. 1995. p. 198.
  2. ^ Joel Shurkin, "Science and Culture: How fish innards inspire art". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences vol. 113 no. 15 3906–3907, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1603286113