Robert C. Schelly, Ph.D.
Department of Ichthyology
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, NY 10024-5192
Voice: 212 496 3664
Fax: 212 769 5642
schelly@amnh.org

Senior Scientific Assistant
Department of Ichthyology
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, NY 10024
Voice: 212 496 3339
Fax: 212 769 5642
arrin@amnh.org

Curatorial Associate
Department of Ichthyology
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, NY 10024-5192
Voice: 212 769 5864
Fax: 212 769 5642
bbrown@amnh.org

Associate Curator and Curator-in-Charge
Department of Ichthyology
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, NY 10024-5192
Voice: 212 313 7791
Fax: 212 769 5642
jsparks@amnh.org

Sparks Website

Sparks Research

Link to the Congo Project

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Books:

in prep. Stiassny, M.L.J. Anatomy of Fishes: the musculoskeletal system. John Wiley and Sons, New York

Axelrod Research Curator
Department of Ichthyology
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, NY 10024-5192
Voice: 212 769 5796
Fax: 212 769 5642
mljs@amnh.org

The Congo Project

Curator
Department of Ichthyology
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, NY 10024-5192
Voice: 212 769 5652
Fax: 212 769 5642
schaefer@amnh.org

Scott Schaefer's research is focused on the systematics, biogeography, and evolutionary morphology of the tropical freshwater fishes of Africa and South America. This research principally seeks to resolve problems in the taxonomy, classification, and nomenclature at multiple hierarchic levels in those fishes that dominate the ecology of tropical riverine systems, notably catfishes and characoids.

Invited Reviews

2006. Schaefer, S.A. 2006. (review of) Morphological evolution, aptations, homoplasies, constraints, and evolutionary trends: Catfishes as a case study on general phylogeny and macroevolution. R. Diogo. Quart. Rev. Biol. 71:276-278.