Helen K. Larson

Helen K. Larson is an ichthyologist who specializes in Indo-Pacific fish.

In the 1960s and 1970s she attended the University of Guam and also worked in the local Marine Laboratory. There she collected a new species of the goby genus Eviota ( Eviota pellucida ) and published the first description in 1976 in the journal Copeia .

Her family left Guam and Helen Larson got a job as assistant to ichthyologist Douglass F. Hoese at the Australian Museum in Sydney .

From 1981 she worked at the Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory (MAGNT) in Darwin (Northern Territory) as curator for fish until she retired in 2009.

You are interested in the Indo-Pacific fish, especially the gobies ( Gobioidei ), including the gobies , the sleeper gobies and the mudskippers .

Helen Larson is the author or co-author of more than 120 scientific papers. In it she described 72 new species and 7 new genera . She works on the editorial board of the journals Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters and aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology .

In her honor, for example, a genus of reef gobies ( Larsonella ) or the dwarf needle horse Idiotropiscis larsonae was named.

Web links

• Bibliography in the National Library of Australia; accessed on October 16, 2014
• Press release on the retirement of Helen K. Larson of the Northern Territory Government dated July 10, 2009; accessed on October 16, 2014
• Interview: Anatomy of a fish taxonomist: Helen Larson ; accessed on October 16, 2014