John Paxton

Early life John Richard Paxton was born in 1938 and grew up in Los Angeles, California.

Career Paxton spent most of his career at the Australian Museum in Sydney, Australia. He arrived in February 1968 as the museum's Curator of Fishes. Over the next 30 years, Paxton increased the size of the Australian Museum's fish collection from 80,000 specimens to more than 1 million. This created the third-largest marine fish collection in the world, and the largest in Australia. Paxton retired in 1998, and was made an honorary life member in 1991.

Paxton's tilefish Branchiostegus paxtoni Dooley & Kailola, 1988.

Careproctus paxtoni Stein, Chernova & Andriashev 2001

Conocara paxtoni Sazonov, Williams & Kobyliansky 2009

Corythoichthys paxtoni Dawson, 1977, commonly known as Paxton's pipefish''', is a species of marine fish of the family Syngnathidae. It is endemic to the Coral Sea, being found in the Great Barrier Reef, the Chesterfield Islands, and New Caledonia.

Eustomias paxtoni Clarke 2001

Gigantactis paxtoni Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg 1981

Nettenchelys paxtoni Karmovskaya 1999

Ostracoberyx paxtoni Quéro & Ozouf-Costaz 1991

Photonectes paxtoni Flynn & Klepadlo 2012

Setipinna paxtoni Wongratana 1987

Torquigener paxtoni Hardy 1983

Ventrifossa paxtoni Iwamoto & A. Williams, 1999 (Thinbarbel whiptail)

Ventrifossa johnboborum'' Iwamoto, 1982 (Snoutscale whiptail)

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