Phil Harris, University of Alabama


	Phillip M. Harris Assistant Professor and Curator of Fishes Department of Biological Sciences Box 870345 The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0345 USA Voice: 205-348-1831 Fax: 205-348-6460 Email: pharris@bama.ua.edu Webpage: http://bama.ua.edu/~pharris/lab/
General Interests: Cypriniform fishes are some of the most challenging taxonomic groups for revisionary studies, largely because of their sheer diversity and the existence of so many species that “look alike.” My research efforts with Cypriniformes has attempted to change this perception of this group of fishes. I have examined these fishes for a variety of topics, including systematics, taxonomy, and biogeography, speciation and rates of evolution, and ecology, both autecology and synecology. I have used a wide variety of morphological-types of characters and both mtDNA and nDNA to reconstruct phylogenetic relationships of species, genera, and higher taxa, as well as describe new species. Most of my research has focused on Leuciscine species within Cyprinidae, especially those from North America, and species of Catostomidae. Taxa: Recent and Fossil species; Families Catostomidae, Cyprinidae (subfamilies Leuciscine, Danioninae), Balatoridae Character Types: Osteology, myology, mtDNA, nDNA, behavior Target Continents: North America, Central Asia, Southeast Asia