Richard Peter Vari

Richard Peter Vari (1949–2016), U.S. ichthyologist.

• Curator of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 25 taxon names authored by Richard Peter Vari

Eponyms

(List may be incomplete)

• 1 eponym of Richard Peter Vari

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1978

• Vari, R.P. 1978. The genus Leptagoniates (Pisces: Characoidei) with a description of a new species from Bolivia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 91(1): 184-190. BHL Reference page. 

1980

• Vari, R.P. & Géry, J. 1980. Cheirodon ortegai, a new markedly sexually dimorphic cheirodontine (Pisces: Characoidea) from the Río Ucayali of Peru. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 93(1): 75–82. BHL Reference page. 

1983

• Vari, R. P. 1983. Phylogenetic relationships of the families Curimatidae, Prochilodontidae, Anostomidae, and Chilodontidae (Pisces: Characiformes). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 378: 1–60. Reference page. 

1987

• Weitzman, S.H. & Vari, R.P. 1987. Two new species and a new genus of miniature characid fishes (Teleostei: Characiformes) from northern South America. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 100(3): 640–652. BHL Reference page. 

1991

• Vari, R.P. & Howe, J.C. 1991. Catalog of type specimens of Recent fishes in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. 1. Characiformes (Teleostei, Ostariophysi). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 517: 1–52. DOI: 10.5479/si.00810282.517 Reference page. 

1995

• Vari, R.P. 1995. The neotropical fish family Ctenoluciidae (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characiformes): supra and intrafamilial phylogenetic relationships, with a revisionary study. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology no. 564: iv + 97 pp. (PDF)

2000

• Fernández, L. & Vari, R.P. 2000. New Species of Trichomycterus (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) Lacking a Pelvic Fin and Girdle from the Andes of Argentina. Copeia 2000(4): 990–996. Abstract

2003

• Castro, R.M.C. & Vari, R.P. in Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & C.J. Ferraris, Jr. 2003. Check list of the freshwater fishes of South and Central America.: i–xi + 1–729. (PDF)

2004

• Castro, R.M.C. & Vari, R.P. 2004. Detritivores of the South American fish family Prochilodontidae (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characiformes): a phylogenetic and revisionary study. Smithsonian contributions to zoology (622)

2005

• Zanata, A.M. & Vari, R.P. 2005. The family Alestidae (Ostariophysi, Characiformes): a phylogenetic analysis of a trans-Atlantic clade. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145: 1–144. PDF. Reference page. 

2006

• Vari, R.P. & Chang, F. 2006. Cyphocharax derhami, a new species (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Curimatidae) from northeastern Peru.