Curators

Anthony A. Echelle, Regents Professor Emeritus & Curator of Fishes

Fish Biology, Molecular/Biochemical Systematics, Population Structure, Conservation Biology

Ph.D., 1970, University of Oklahoma

Phone: 405-744-9681

Email: anthony.echelle@okstate.edu

Specific Interests

My research is in fish biology with an emphasis on molecular systematics, genetic structure of natural populations, and the status and conservation biology of fishes in the southwestern United States.

Selected Publications

• Echelle, A. A., and A. F. Echelle. 2020. Restoration of aquatic habitats and native fishes in the desert: some successes in western North America, in press. In: Standing Between Life and Extinction: Ethics and Ecology of Conserving Aquatic Species in the American Southwest. D. L. Propst, J. E. Williams, K. R. Bestgen, and C. W. Hoagstrom (eds.). University of Chicago Press.
• Warren, M, Burr, A. A. Echelle, B. Kuhajda, and S. Ross (eds.). 2020. North American Freshwater Fishes: Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior, Vol. 2. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland.
• Echelle, A. A., and A. F. Echelle. 2020. Cyprinodontidae: Pupfishes, p. 609-673. In: North American Freshwater Fishes: Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior, Vol. 2. M. Warren, Burr, A. A. Echelle, B. Kuhajda, and S. Ross (eds.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland.
• Echelle, A. A., and A. F. Echelle. 2019. West Texas Pupfishes. In: Texans on the Brink: Threatened and Endangered Animals, p. 81-85. B. R. Chapman and W. I. Lutterschmidt (eds.). Texas A&M University Press.
• Schwemm, M. R., A. M. Asher, E. J. Heist, T. F. Turner, and A. Echelle. 2019. Genetic management of North American Paddlefish: Case studies and recommendations. in J. D. Schooley and D. L. Scarnec­chia, editors. Paddlefish: ecological, aquacul­tural, and regulatory challenges of managing a global resource. American Fisheries Society Symposium 88:29-48. American Fisheries Soci­ety, Bethesda, Maryland.
• Echelle, A. A., N. J. Lang, W. C. Borden, M. R. Schwemm, C. W. Hoagstrom, D. J. Eisenhour, R. L. Mayden, and R. A. Van Den Bussche. 2018. Molecular systematics of the North American chub genus Macrhybopsis (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Zootaxa 4375:537-554.
• Worthington, T., A. Echelle, J. Perkin, R. Mollenhauer, N. Earless, J. Dyer, D. Logue, and S. Brewer. 2017. The emblematic minnows of the North American Great Plains: A synthesis of threats and conservation opportunities. Fish and Fisheries 2017:1–37
• Echelle, A. A., S. Schwemm, N. J. Lang, J. S. Baker, R. M. Wood, T. J. Near, and W. L. Fisher. 2015 Molecular systematics of the Least Darter (Percidae: Etheostoma microperca): Historical biogeography and conservation implications. Copeia 2015:87-98