John S. Sparks
John S. Sparks, US. Ichthyologist.
- American Museum of Natural History
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- Sparks, J.S. 2004. A new and presumably extinct species of Ptychochromoides (Teleostei: Perciformes: Cichlidae) from central Madagascar. Zootaxa 524: 1–15. Abstract & excerpt DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.524.1.1
Reference page. - Sparks, J.S., Dunlap, P.V. & Smith, W.L. 2005. Evolution and diversification of a sexually dimorphic luminescent system in ponyfishes (Teleostei: Leiognathidae), including diagnoses of two new genera. Cladistics 21: 305–327. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2005.00067.x Reference page.
- Sparks, J.S. 2006. A New Species of Ponyfish (Teleostei: Leiognathidae: Photoplagios) from Madagascar, with a Phylogeny for Photoplagios and Comments on the Status of Equula lineolata Valenciennes. American Museum Novitates 3526: 1–20. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3526%5B1:ANSOPT%5D2.0.CO;2 Reference page.
- Sparks, J.S. & Chakrabarty, P. 2007. A new species of ponyfish (Teleostei: Leiognathidae: Photoplagios) from the Philippines. Copeia 2007(3): 622–629. Reference page.
- Sparks, J.S. & Baldwin, Z.H. 2012. A new species of Parapercis (Teleostei: Pinguipedidae) from Madagascar. Zootaxa 3204: 31–39. Preview [erratum in Zootaxa 3208: 68–68. Preview PDF] Reference page.
- Sparks, J.S., Loiselle, P.V. & Baldwin, Z.H. 2012. Rediscovery and phylogenetic placement of the endemic Malagasy cichlid Ptychochromoides itasy (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Ptychochrominae). Zootaxa 3352: 17–24. Preview DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3352.1.2 Reference page.
- Wainwright, P.C., Smith, W.L., Price, S.A., Tang, K.L., Sparks, J.S., Ferry, L.A., Kuhn, K.L., Eytan, R.I. & Near, T.J. 2012. The evolution of pharyngognathy: a phylogenetic and functional appraisal of the pharyngeal jaw key innovation in labroid fishes and beyond. Systematic biology 61(6): 1001–1027. PDF. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/sys060 Reference page.
- Chakrabarty, P. & Sparks, J.S. 2015. Formalizing the names of subfamilies and tribes of ponyfishes (Leiognathidae Gill 1893). Zootaxa 3964(2): 298–299. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3964.2.10. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
- Sparks, J.S. & Chakrabarty, P. 2015: Description of a new genus of ponyfishes (Teleostei: Leiognathidae), with a review of the current generic-level composition of the family. Zootaxa 3947(2): 181–190. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3947.2.2. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
- Martinez, C.M., Arroyave, J. & Sparks, J.S., 2015: A new species of Ptychochromis from southeastern Madagascar (Teleostei: Cichlidae). Zootaxa 4044(1): 79–92. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4044.1.4. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
- Davis, M.P., Sparks, J.S. & Smith, W.L. 2016. Repeated and widespread evolution of bioluminescence in marine fishes. PLoS One 11, E0155154. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155154 Reference page.
