Education

Ph.D. l964, Cornell University
M.A. l958, University of Missouri
B.S. l952, Cornell University

Research Interests

My current research efforts involve describing new species of flatheads from the Western Indian Ocean.

Selected Publications

Collette, Bruce B. and Leslie W. Knapp. l964. Catalog of the type specimens of the darters (Pisces,Percidae, Etheostomatini). Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 119 (3550): 88 pp.

Knapp, Leslie W. l973. Platycephalus beauforti, a new species of flathead (Pisces, Platycephalidae) from the western Pacific. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 86 (l0): 117-126, 4 figs.

Knapp, Leslie W. 1976. Redescription, relationships, and status of the Maryland darter, Etheostoma sellare (Radcliffe and Welsh), an endangered species. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 89(6): 99-118, 5 figs.

Knapp, Leslie W. 1979. Ergebnisse der ichthyologischen Untersuchungen wahrend der Expedition des Forschungsschiffes "Meteor" in den Indischen Ozean, Oktober 1964 bis Mai 1965. A. Systematischer Teil, Scorpaeniformes, Families Platycephalidae and Bembridae. Meteor Forschungschiffes.- Ergebnisse(D):48-54, figs. 515-527.

Knapp, Leslie W. 1987. New Australian Fishes. Part 13. Two new species of Platycephalidae. Mem. Mus. Victoria 48(1): 53-55.

Knapp, Leslie W. 1996. Review of the genus Cociella Whitley (Teleostei, Platycephalidae) with description of three new species. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 109(1): 17-33.

Knapp, Leslie W. 1996. FAO Identification Guide to the Western Central Pacific, Fisheries Identification Sheets. Platycephalidae. Rome: 37 pp. 34 figs.

Imamura, Hisashi & Leslie W. Knapp, 1997. A new species of deepwater flathead, Bembras adenensis (Scorpaeniformes: Bembridae) from the western Indian Ocean. Ichthyol. Res., 44(1): 9-14.

Knapp, Leslie W., Hisashi Imamura, and Mitsuhiro Sakashita. 2000. Onigocia bimaculata, a new species of flathead fish (Scorpaeniformes: Platycephalidae) from the Indo-Pacific. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown. Special Publication No. 64: 10 pp., 7 figs.