James C. "Jim" Tyler

U.S. 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

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 9 taxon names authored by James C. Tyler

Publications

• 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

• Bannikov, A.F., Tyler, J.C., Arcila, D. & Carnevale, G. 2016. A new family of gymnodont fish (Tetraodontiformes) from the earliest Eocene of the Peri-Tethys (Kabardino-Balkaria, northern Caucasus, Russia). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. Online edition. 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.