Lawrence M. Page

Page was born in Fairbury, Illinois and grew up in Lexington. After developing an childhood interest in identifying fish he obtained a Bachelor of Science in biology from Illinois State University in 1966.{{cite web |last1=Holliday |first1=Jill |title=Dr. Larry Page: Documenting Diversity |url=https://www.idigbio.org/content/dr-larry-page-documenting-diversity |website=iDigBio |access-date=10 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240414022009/https://www.idigbio.org/content/dr-larry-page-documenting-diversity |archive-date=14 April 2024 |url-status=live}} He graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a Master of Science in zoology in 1968 and a Ph.D. in zoology in 1972.

After finishing graduate school, Page joined the Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS) to work on statewide surveys of the fish species present in Illinois. He was employeed as a fish biologist for architectural engineering firm Sargent & Lundy in 1972 and a consultant for the Missouri Botanical Garden from 1973 to 1976. He served as an associate ichthyologist at the University of Kansas from 1979 to 1995. He became a full professor at the University of Illinois in 1980.

In 1989 Page became the director of the INHS, a position he held until 1996. He became a principal scientist emeritus at the INHS in 2001. His work at the INHS cataloguing extant and extirpated fish species within Illinois resulted in the publication of An Atlas of Illinois Fishes in 2022.

In 2005 Page became the Curator of Fishes at the Florida Museum of Natural History, where he continues to work. He served as the director of iDigBio, a National Science Foundation specimen curation project, from 2011 to 2019.

• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2019)
• Fellow, American Fisheries Society (2018){{cite web |title=Dr. Lawrence M. Page from Gainesville, Florida Receives Fellow Award from the American Fisheries Society |url=https://fisheries.org/2018/08/dr-lawrence-m-page-from-gainesville-florida-receives-fellow-award-from-the-american-fisheries-society/ |website=American Fisheries Society |access-date=10 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221002152655/https://fisheries.org/2018/08/dr-lawrence-m-page-from-gainesville-florida-receives-fellow-award-from-the-american-fisheries-society/ |archive-date=2 October 2022 |date=28 August 2018 |url-status=live}}
• Fulbright award for the study of freshwater fish in Thailand (2020){{cite web |last1=Marchese |first1=Halle |title=Lawrence Page receives Fulbright award to study freshwater fish in Thailand |url=https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/lawrence-page-fulbright-2020/ |website=Florida Museum |access-date=10 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240711013530/https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/lawrence-page-fulbright-2020/ |archive-date=11 July 2024 |date=3 April 2020 |url-status=live}}
• Robert K. Johnson Award, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (2014){{cite web |title=Robert K. Johnson Award for Excellence in Service |url=https://www.asih.org/awards/johnson-award |website=American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists |access-date=11 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240217102758/https://www.asih.org/awards/johnson-award |archive-date=17 February 2024 |url-status=live}}
• Gibbs Award, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists{{cite web |title=Robert H. Gibbs, Jr. Memorial Award for Excellence in Systematic Ichthyology |url=https://www.asih.org/awards/gibbs-award |website=American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists |access-date=11 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240120032851/https://www.asih.org/awards/gibbs-award |archive-date=20 January 2024 |url-status=live}}

• {{cite book

| last = Page

| first = Lawrence

| date = 1 January 1983

| title = Handbook of Darters

| publisher = TFH Publications

| isbn = 978-0876668047

}}

• {{cite book

| last1 = Lindquist

| first1 = David

| last2 = Page

| first2 = Lawrence

| date = 30 September 1984

| title = Environmental biology of darters. Developments in Environmental Biology of Fishes.

| publisher = Springer

| isbn = 978-9061935063

}}

• {{cite book

| last = Page

| first = Lawrence

| date = 30 September 1985

| title = The Crayfishes and Shrimps (Decapoda) of Illinois

| publisher = Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin

| doi = 10.21900/j.inhs.v33.140

}}

• {{cite book

| last1 = Lawrence

| first1 = Page

| last2 = Burr

| first2 = Brooks

| date = 1 January 1991

| title = A Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes: North America, North of Mexico

| publisher = Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

| isbn = 978-0395910917

}}

• {{cite book

| last1 = Lawrence

| first1 = Page

| last2 = Burr

| first2 = Brooks

| date = 21 April 2011

| title = Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes, Second Edition

| publisher = Mariner Books

| isbn = 978-0547242064

}}

• {{cite book

| last1 = Page

| first1 = Lawrence

| last2 = Espinosa-Pérez

| first2 = Héctor

| last3 = Findley

| first3 = Lloyd

| last4 = Gilbert

| first4 = Carter

| last5 = Lea

| first5 = Robert

| last6 = Mandrak

| first6 = Nicholas

| last7 = Mayden

| first7 = Richard

| last8 = Nelson

| first8 = Joseph

| date = April 2013

| title = Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, 7th edition

| publisher = American Fisheries Society

| isbn = 978-1-934874-31-8

}}

• {{cite book

| last1 = Robins

| first1 = Robert

| last2 = Page

| first2 = Lawrence

| last3 = Williams

| first3 = James

| last4 = Randall

| first4 = Zachary

| last5 = Sheehy

| first5 = Griffin

| date = 10 April 2018

| title = Fishes in the Fresh Waters of Florida

| publisher = University of Florida Press

| isbn = 978-1683400332

}}

• {{cite book

| last1 = Metzke

| first1 = Brian

| last2 = Burr

| first2 = Brooks

| last3 = Hinz

| first3 = Leon

| last4 = Page

| first4 = Lawrence

| last5 = Taylor

| first5 = Christopher

| date = 7 June 2022

| title = An Atlas of Illinois Fishes: 150 Years of Change

| publisher = University of Illinois Press

| isbn = 978-0252044144

}}

• {{cite book

| last1 = Page

| first1 = Lawrence

| last2 = Bemis

| first2 = Katherine

| last3 = Dowling

| first3 = Thomas

| last4 = Espinosa-Pérez

| first4 = Héctor

| last5 = Findley

| first5 = Lloyd

| last6 = Gilbert

| first6 = Carter

| last7 = Hartel

| first7 = Karsten

| last8 = Lea

| first8 = Robert

| last9 = Mandrak

| first9 = Nicholas

| last10 = Neighbors

| first10 = Margaret

| last11 = Schmitter-Soto

| first11 = Juan

| last12 = Walker

| first12 = H. J.

| date = September 2023

| title = Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, 8th edition

| publisher = American Fisheries Society

| isbn = 978-1-934874-69-1

}}

• See :Category:Taxa named by Lawrence M. Page

• Hypostomus pagei{{Cite web |title=ITIS - Report: Hypostomus pagei |url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=680214#null |access-date=2022-08-21 |website=www.itis.gov}} is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs in the basins of the Aroa River, the Tocuyo River, and the Yaracuy River in Venezuela, although it has also been reported from Suriname.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/hypostominae/ | title = Family LORICARIIDAE: Subfamily HYPOSTOMINAE Kner 1853 (Suckermouth Catfishes or Plecos) | access-date= 10 August 2024 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018}}

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