Education

Ph.D. 1971, University of Miami
M.S. 1967, University of Miami
B.S. 1964, Cornell University

Research Interests

Systematics, life history, and distribution of fishes, especially eels and eel larvae, and larvae of other oceanic fishes.

Recent Publications

Smith, D.G., Brokovich, E. and Einbinder, S. 2008. Gymnothorax baranesi, a new moray eel (Anguilliformes : Muraenidae) from the Red Sea, Zootaxa, (1678):63-68

Smith, D.G. and Johnson, G.D. 2007. A New Species of Pteropsaron (Teleostei: Trichonotidae: Hemerocoetinae) from the Western Pacific, with Notes on Related Species, Copeia, 2007(2):364-377

Smith, D.G. 2007. Stanley and Marilyn Weitzman, Copeia, (4):1030-1045

Smith, D.G. 2006. Historical Perspectives - William Beverley Scott, Copeia, 2006(2):307-315

Smith, D.G. and Bohlke, E.B. 2006. Corrections and additions to the type catalog of Indo-Pacific Muraenidae, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 155:35-39

Collette, B.B. and Smith, D.G. 2005. Obituary: William Ralph Taylor, 1919-2004, Copeia, 2005(3):709-711

Smith, D.G. 2005. Historical Perspectives - Victor Gruschka Springer, Copeia, 2005(3):431-439

Smith, D.G. 2005. An introduction to leptocephali: biology and identification, Environmental Biology of Fishes, 74:397-400

Mincarone, M.M. and Smith, D.G. 2005. First record of The grey conger Conger esculentus Poey, 1861 (Congridae) in Brazilian waters, Comunica‡oes do Museu de Ciˆncias e Tecnologia da PUCRS, S‚rie Zoologia, 18(1):59-62

Watson, W., Walker, H.J., Smith, D.G., Thacker, C. and Owen, G.P. 2005. "Microdesmidae: Wormfishes". Pp. 2089-2103 in Early Stages of Atlantic Fishes: an Identification Guide for the Western Central North Atlantic (Richards, W.J.). CRC Press. Taylor & Francis