Michael Barton is an

ichthyologist Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish ( Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of Octobe ...

, the H. W. Stodghill Jr. and Adele H. Stodghill Professor of Biology at Centre College in

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. He is the author of the third edition of ''Bond's Biology of Fishes''. In 2008 he was recognized for two articles, the first one is "Pupfishes of the Bahamas" which became the cover article for the ''Journal of American Killifish Association'' and the second article, "Reproductive isolation among endemic pupfishes (Cyprinodon) on San Salvador Island, Bahamas: Microsatellite evidence," appeared in the ''Biological Journal of the Linnean Society''.

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