Lawrence M. Page (born April 17, 1944) is an American ichthyologist.[3] He is a principal scientist emeritus at the Illinois Natural History Survey, an affiliate professor at the University of Florida, and the Curator of Fishes at the Florida Museum of Natural History.[4] He also served as the project director for iDigBio from 2011 to 2019.[5][2] Over the course of his career he has published over 200 papers and nine books.[6]

Lawrence M. Page
Born (1944-04-17) April 17, 1944 (age 80)
AwardsFellow, AAAS (2019)
Fellow, AFS (2018)
Fulbright Scholar (2020)
Academic background
EducationIllinois State University (BS)
University of Illinois (MS, PhD)
Doctoral advisorPhil Smith[1]
Academic work
DisciplineIchthyology
InstitutionsUniversity of Florida
Illinois Natural History Survey
Florida Museum of Natural History
Main interestsTaxonomy, evolution, and ecology of freshwater fishes.[2]
Websitewww.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/people/larry-page/ Edit this at Wikidata

Early life and education

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Page was born in Fairbury, Illinois and grew up in Lexington.[3][1] After developing an childhood interest in identifying fish he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Illinois State University in 1966.[7][3][2] He graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a Master of Science in Zoology in 1968 and a PhD in Zoology in 1972.[1][2]

Career

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After finishing graduate school, Page joined the Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS) to work on statewide surveys of the fish species present in Illinois.[1] He was employeed as a fish biologist for architectural engineering firm Sargent & Lundy in 1972 and a consultant for the Missouri Botanical Garden from 1973 to 1976.[3] He served as an associate ichthyologist at the University of Kansas from 1979 to 1995. He became a full professor at the University of Illinois in 1980.[3][2]

In 1989 Page became the director of the INHS, a position he held until 1996. He became a principal scientist emeritus at the INHS in 2001.[2] His work at the INHS cataloguing extant and extirpated fish species within Illinois resulted in the publication of An Atlas of Illinois Fishes in 2022.[1]

In 2005 Page became the Curator of Fishes at the Florida Museum of Natural History, where he continues to work.[4] He served as the director of iDigBio, a National Science Foundation specimen curation project, from 2011 to 2019.[1][2]

Awards and recognition

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Bibliography

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  • Page, Lawrence (1 January 1983). Handbook of Darters. TFH Publications. ISBN 978-0876668047.
  • Lindquist, David; Page, Lawrence (30 September 1984). Environmental biology of darters. Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes. Springer. ISBN 978-9061935063.
  • Page, Lawrence (30 September 1985). The Crayfishes and Shrimps (Decapoda) of Illinois. Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin. doi:10.21900/j.inhs.v33.140.
  • Lawrence, Page; Burr, Brooks (1 January 1991). A Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes: North America, North of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0395910917.
  • Lawrence, Page; Burr, Brooks (21 April 2011). Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes, Second Edition. Mariner Books. ISBN 978-0547242064.
  • Page, Lawrence; Espinosa-Pérez, Héctor; Findley, Lloyd; Gilbert, Carter; Lea, Robert; Mandrak, Nicholas; Mayden, Richard; Nelson, Joseph (April 2013). Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, 7th edition. American Fisheries Society. ISBN 978-1-934874-31-8.
  • Robins, Robert; Page, Lawrence; Williams, James; Randall, Zachary; Sheehy, Griffin (10 April 2018). Fishes in the Fresh Waters of Florida. University of Florida Press. ISBN 978-1683400332.
  • Metzke, Brian; Burr, Brooks; Hinz, Leon; Page, Lawrence; Taylor, Christopher (7 June 2022). An Atlas of Illinois Fishes: 150 Years of Change. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0252044144.
  • Page, Lawrence; Bemis, Katherine; Dowling, Thomas; Espinosa-Pérez, Héctor; Findley, Lloyd; Gilbert, Carter; Hartel, Karsten; Lea, Robert; Mandrak, Nicholas; Neighbors, Margaret; Schmitter-Soto, Juan; Walker, H. J. (September 2023). Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, 8th edition. American Fisheries Society. ISBN 978-1-934874-69-1.

Taxon described by him

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Taxon named in his honor

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Barker, Trish (21 April 2023). "LAS honors Lawrence Page for impact on biodiversity research". University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Archived from the original on 12 January 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Page, Lawrence (July 2023). "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Florida Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 July 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Lawrence Merle Page". American Men & Women of Science: A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences. Gale. 2008. Archived from the original on 10 August 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Larry M. Page". Florida Museum. Archived from the original on 11 July 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
  5. ^ a b van Hoose, Natalie (26 November 2019). "Two Florida Museum scientists elected 2019 AAAS fellows". Florida Museum. Archived from the original on 18 May 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
  6. ^ "LAS Alumni Achievement Award". University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. 2024. Archived from the original on 23 September 2023. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
  7. ^ Holliday, Jill. "Dr. Larry Page: Documenting Diversity". iDigBio. Archived from the original on 14 April 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
  8. ^ "Dr. Lawrence M. Page from Gainesville, Florida Receives Fellow Award from the American Fisheries Society". American Fisheries Society. 28 August 2018. Archived from the original on 2 October 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
  9. ^ Marchese, Halle (3 April 2020). "Lawrence Page receives Fulbright award to study freshwater fish in Thailand". Florida Museum. Archived from the original on 11 July 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
  10. ^ "Robert K. Johnson Award for Excellence in Service". American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Archived from the original on 17 February 2024. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  11. ^ "Robert H. Gibbs, Jr. Memorial Award for Excellence in Systematic Ichthyology". American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Archived from the original on 20 January 2024. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  12. ^ "ITIS - Report: Hypostomus pagei". www.itis.gov. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  13. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Family LORICARIIDAE: Subfamily HYPOSTOMINAE Kner 1853 (Suckermouth Catfishes or Plecos)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 10 August 2024.