James Wilder Orr
James Wilder Orr (born
Huntington,
New York, July 19, 1958) is an American fisheries biologist,
ichthyologist,
and systematist best known for his studies of
skates, rockfishes,
snailfishes, and
flatfishes. He has described 32 new
species and two new
genera of
fishes, and is the author or co-author of more than 130 scientific and popular articles, including three books. His work has focused primarily on the
phylogenetic relationships,
zoogeography,
reproductive biology, and
behavior of marine
teleosts, particularly deep-water
benthic taxa. He has spent most of his career at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center,
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), in
Seattle, as a Research Fisheries Biologist. At the same time, he has served as an Affiliate Professor at the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, and Affiliate
Curator of Fishes at the
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture,
University of Washington, Seattle. For his lifetime of service, Orr was presented with a
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Distinguished Career Award in 2022.
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