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Frank Pezold, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Science & Technology
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Education
- B.A. English, University of New Orleans, 1974
- M.S. Biological Sciences, University of New Orleans, 1979
- Ph.D. Zoology, The University of Texas at Austin, 1984
Research Interests
The study of fish diversity and its conservation is a vibrant area of research from the population level to the recovery of evolutionary phylogenies. Using both morphological and molecular methods, graduate and undergraduate students in my lab are currently 1) investigating the population dynamics and genetics of sicydiine gobies, 2) studying genetic and morphological diversity of African amphiliid catfishes, gobies in the genus Bathygobius, and African pygmy sleepers (Kribia), 3) describing a new species of goby from Micronesia, and 4) constructing a GIS taxonomic and ecological database of the freshwater and mangrove fishes of Guinea, West Africa.
Recent Publications
Thacker, C. E., F. Pezold and R. D. Suttkus. Redescription of the dwarf Neotropical eleotrid genus Leptophilypnus (Teleostei: Gobioidei), including a new species and comments on Microphilypnus. Copeia. In press.
Pezold, F. L. and I. J. Harrison. Eleotridae and Gobiidae. In: North American Freshwater Fishes; Evolution, Ecology, Behavior. Richard L. Mayden and Brooks B. Burr, eds. In press.
Pezold, F., I. J. Harrison and P. J. Miller. Eleotridae. In Fishes of the freshwaters of the lower Guinea ichthyogeographical province: Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Congo-Brazzaville. G. Teugels, M. Stiassny and C. Hopkins eds. In press.
Harrison, I. J., P. J. Miller and F. Pezold. Gobiidae. In Fishes of the freshwaters of the lower Guinea ichthyogeographical province: Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Congo-Brazzaville. G. Teugels, M. Stiassny and C. Hopkins eds. In press.
Harrison, I. J., P. J. Miller and F. Pezold. Microdesmidae. In Fishes of the freshwaters of the
lower Guinea ichthyogeographical province: Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Congo-Brazzaville. G. Teugels, M. Stiassny and C. Hopkins eds. In press.
Pezold, F. 2004. Redescriptions and synonymies of the American-West African genus Gobionellus (Teleostei, Gobiidae). Copeia (journal of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists) 2004(2): 281-297.
Pezold, F. 2004. A phylogenetic analysis of the genus Gobionellus (Teleostei:Gobiidae). Copeia 2004(2): 260-280.
Pezold, F. and B. Cage. 2002. A review of the spinycheek sleepers, genus Eleotris (Teleostei), of the Western Hemisphere, with comparison to the West African species. Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany 31: 19-63
