Here is a list of current research of both Marilyn and her husband Stan.

Note that she is a co-author on one of Stan's major works-in-progress.
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History  Dept. of Systematic Biology, Division of Fishes

         Division of Fishes
Name: Weitzman, Marilyn Weitzman, Marilyn
Institute: Smithsonian Institution - Division of Fishes
Comments: Checks the validity of scientific names and completeness of family Lebiasinidae.
Keywords: Taxonomy: Lebiasinidae
Since: 2000

MARILYN WEITZMAN
Continuing studies of the Lebiasinidae with several projects ongoing. These include descriptions of new species of Pyrrhulina and Copella from Peru and Brazil. Continuing attempts at phylogenetic studies but these are difficult due to lack of sufficient numbers of specimens from known localities.
 

STAN WEITZMAN

Continued editing and some statistical analyses of fresh data are being completed on the nearly finished "A phylogenetic review of the glandulocaudine fish tribe Glandulocaudini, (Characiformes), from eastern Brazil", by N. MENEZES and S. H. WEITZMAN. However, the primary current effort is the editing completion of a book expected to be published in 2006 and in Portuguese and English titled: "Conservation of Neotropical Freshwater Fishes with Special Reference to and a List of the Fishes of the Atlantic Forest of Brazil." The authors are NAЙRCIO A. MENEZES, STANLEY H. WEITZMAN, RICARDO M. C. CASTRO, FLÁVIO LIMA, OSVALDO OYAKAWA, and MARILYN J. WEITZMAN. Other projects that are in progress in 2006 are the "Reproductive Morphology of Brittanichthys axelrodi (Characiformes: Characidae) an Inseminating Fish from South America" with ROBERT JAVONILLO and JOHN BURNS, both of The George Washington University and a paper on the "Intromittent organs in the genus Monotocheirodon (Ostariopysi: Characiformes: Characidae)," as well as another, also with JOHN BURNS, on a review of the fishes of the genus Monotocheirodon. Other research projects on reproductive modes and systematics of South American characiforms are also in progress.
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Ichthyology:Freshwater Fishes
 
   
 
Peixes de água doce da Mata Atlantica / Freshwater Fishes of Mata Atlantica:   Menezes, Naércio Aquino; Stanley Weitzman, Osvaldo Oyakawa, Flávio Lima, Ricardo Castro & Marilyn Weitzman

:    Peixes de água doce da Mata Atlantica / Freshwater Fishes of Mata Atlantica


Inventory number:   004634

2007. 28cm. Pp.408. Numerous excellent colour photos, maps. Paperback. Presents an illustrated list of the species of freshwater fishes of the Atlantic forest of Brasil with notes on their habitats and biogeography, descriptive systematics, phylogeny, ecological information and comments on the conservation of neotropical freshwater fishes. Text in Portuguese and English.

Freshwater Fishes of Mata Atlantica

Price = 52.99 GBP

South America Drainage Basemap

by Marilyn Weitzmann

 
 
 

The NEODAT project is pleased to make available the accompanying basemap of South American rivers.  Prepared by Marilyn Weitzman, Resident Affiliate of the Fish Division of the National Museum of Natural History, the map is available in identical resolution gif (81k) and tiff (3.1mb) formats.  Original scanned size is 1491 x 2128 pixels. The map can be freely used for academic or other non-profit purpose. SA Rivers

 

Prepared by the Neodat Project
June, 1998

Reference Citation

Weitzman, M. and S.H. Weitzman, 2003
Citation: Weitzman, M. and S.H. Weitzman, 2003. Lebiasinidae (Pencil fishes). p. 241-251. In: R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil.
Page: 248
Paper URL:  
E-mail:  
Address:  
Ref. No.: 37104
Language: English
Usage:  
Name used: Pyrrhulina obermuelleri

 

The following references were used to created this page including research done by James Langhammer.

http://www.nmnh.si.edu/

http://www.neodat.org/

http://filaman.ifm-geomar.de/

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