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Tyson Royal Roberts[1] is an American ichthyologist. He has been described as "the world's foremost authority on Regalecus".[2]
Roberts attended Stanford University, where he earned his B.A. in 1961 and a Ph.D. in 1968.[1] His doctoral thesis was titled "Studies on the osteology and phylogeny of characoid fishes."[3] He won a 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of "Organismic Biology & Ecology",[4] and is a research associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama[5] and is also affiliated to the Institute of Molecular Biosciences of Mahidol University, Thailand.