Thomas J. Near is an American evolutionary

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 ...

who is currently a Professor and Chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

as well as the Bingham Oceanographic Curator of Ichthyology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History. Since 2015, Near has been Head of

Saybrook College Saybrook College is one of the 14 residential colleges at Yale University. It was founded in 1933 by partitioning the Memorial Quadrangle into two parts: Saybrook and Branford. Unlike many of Yale's residential colleges that are centered on one ...

, one of Yale University's residential colleges. (The title was originally "Master" but this was replaced with "Head" in 2016.)

Taxon described by him

*See :Taxa named by Thomas J. Near

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Near, Thomas Living people 1969 births Northern Illinois University alumni Yale University faculty Evolutionary biologists Ichthyologists American ichthyologists