James C. Tyler

James C. "Jim" Tyler (fl. 1992-) United States ichthyologist

Senior Scientist Emeritus, Division of Fishes, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Institiution, National Museum of Natural History, PO Box 37012, MRC 159, Washington, DC 20013-7012 SI profile

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Tyler, J.C. & Bannikov, A.F. (1992). New genus of primitive ocean sunfish with separate premaxillae from the Eocene of Southwest Russia (Molidae, Tetraodontiformes). Copeia. 1992 (4): 1014–1023. DOI: 10.2307/1446631. JSTOR. ResearchGate. Reference page.

Tyler, J.C., O'Toole, B. & Winterbottom, R. 2003. Phylogeny of the genera and families of zeiform fishes, with comments on their relationships with tetraodontiforms and caproids. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 618: i-iv, 1-110. Reference page.

Carnevale, G. & Tyler, J. C., 2015: A new pufferfish (Teleostei, Tetraodontidae) from the Middle Miocene of St. Margarethen, Austria. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 89 (3): 435–447. DOI: 10.1007/s12542-014-0243-3 Reference page.

Bannikov, A.F., Tyler, J.C., Arcila, D. & Carnevale, G. 2016 (Online) 2017 (Print). A new family of gymnodont fish (Tetraodontiformes) from the earliest Eocene of the Peri-Tethys (Kabardino-Balkaria, northern Caucasus, Russia). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15(2): 129–146. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2016.1149115Reference page.
Close, R.A., Johanson, Z., Tyler, J.C., Harrington, R.C. & Friedman, M. 2016. Mosaicism in a new Eocene pufferfish highlights rapid morphological innovation near the origin of crown tetraodontiforms. Palaeontology 59(4): 499–514. DOI: 10.1111/pala.12245 Reference page.

Bemis, K.E., Tyler, J.C., Psomadakis, P.N., Ferris, L.R. & Kumar, A.B. 2020. Review of the Indian Ocean spikefish genus Mephisto (Tetraodontiformes: Triacanthodidae). Zootaxa 4802(1): 82–98. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.5 Reference page.