Melanie Stiassny

Melanie Stiassny
Born1953-01-17
Bielefeld, Germany
Alma materKing's College London
Scientific career
FieldsIchthyology, evolutionary biology
Institutions
  • American Museum of Natural History
  • Richard Gilder Graduate School
  • Harvard University
  • Columbia University

Melanie Lisa Jane Stiassny (born 17 January 1953 in Bielefeld, Germany) is the Axelrod Research Curator of Ichthyology at the American Museum of Natural History. Her research interests focus on freshwater biodiversity documentation and systematic ichthyology in the Old World tropics, including tropical Africa (especially in the Congo River) and Madagascar.[1] She has published broadly on the biogeography conservation and systematics of teleosts.[2]

  1. ^ "RGGS Faculty". American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
  2. ^ The Fresh and Brackish Water Fishes of Lower Guinea, west-Central Africa. Paris: IRD Éditions. 2007. ISBN 978-2709916202.