Jay Stauffer Jr.

Affiliate Researcher
Titles and Affiliations
Distinguished Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management

Research Summary

Research interests include endangered fishes, freshwater fish behavior, impact of introduced fishes, and systematics and zoogeography of freshwater fishes. 

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Recent Publications

Genomic evaluation of mud sunfish in the atlantic slope drainage

Knott, S., Raesly, R., Hocking, D., Stauffer, J. & Welsh, A., Aug 2024, In: Fisheries Research. 276, 107043.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Description of a rock-dwelling cichlid that re-invaded the sand substrate in Lake Malaŵi, Africa

Konings, A. F., Miller, T. A. & Stauffer, J. R., 2024, In: Zootaxa. 5399, 2, p. 181-189 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Aquaculture of Animal Species: Their Eukaryotic Parasites and the Control of Parasitic Infections

Madsen, H. & Stauffer, J. R., Jan 2024, In: Biology. 13, 1, 41.

Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-review

Description of a geographically variable elongate rock-dwelling cichlid (Cichliformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Malawi, Africa

Stauffer, J. R. & Konings, A. F., 2023, In: Zootaxa. 5296, 2, p. 265-274 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Morphological Comparison of the Chesapeake Logperch Percina bimaculata with the Logperch Percina c. caprodes and Percina c. semifasciata in Pennsylvania

Stauffer, J. R., Freedman, J. A., Fischer, D. P. & Criswell, R. W., Jun 2023, In: Fishes. 8, 6, 288.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Freshwater unionid mussels threatened by predation of Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus)

Clark, K. H., Iwanowicz, D. D., Iwanowicz, L. R., Mueller, S. J., Wisor, J. M., Bradshaw-Wilson, C., Schill, W. B., Stauffer, J. R. & Boyer, E. W., Dec 2022, In: Scientific reports. 12, 1, 12859.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

A One Health Approach Relative to Trematode-Caused Diseases of People and Animals Associated with Aquaculture

Madsen, H., Nguyen, H. M., Lanza, G. R. & Stauffer, J. R., 2022, In: Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture. 30, 4, p. 542-566 25 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-review

Schistosomiasis Control Under Changing Ecological Settings in Lake Malawi

Madsen, H. & Stauffer, J. R., Sep 2022, In: EcoHealth. 19, 3, p. 320-323 4 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Determination of Endangered Freshwater Fishes: Can Value Be Estimated?

Stauffer, J. R. & Morgan, R. P., Aug 2022, In: Water (Switzerland). 14, 16, 2524.

Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debatepeer-review

Nile Tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (Teleostei: Cichlidae): a threat to native fishes of Lake Malawi?

Stauffer, J. R., Chirwa, E. R., Jere, W., Konings, A. F., Tweddle, D. & Weyl, O., Jun 2022, In: Biological Invasions. 24, 6, p. 1585-1597 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-review

Status of freshwater mussels (Unionidae) in the french creek watershed, usa at the onset of invasion by round goby, neogobius melanostomus

Clark, K. H., Wisor, J. M., Mueller, S. J., Bradshaw-Wilson, C., Boyer, E. W. & Stauffer, J. R., Nov 1 2021, In: Water (Switzerland). 13, 21, 3064.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Microcomputed tomography used to link head morphology and observed feeding behavior in cichlids of Lake Malaŵi

Konings, A. F., Wisor, J. M. & Stauffer, J. R., May 2021, In: Ecology and Evolution. 11, 9, p. 4605-4615 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Descriptions of two new shell-dwelling species of Metriaclima (Cichlidae) from Lake Malaŵi, Africa

Miller, T. A., Konings, A. F. & Stauffer, J. R., Oct 15 2021, In: Zootaxa. 5052, 3, p. 419-432 14 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-review

A new species of Diplotaxodon (Cichliformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Malaŵi

Stauffer, J. R. & Konings, A. F., Jan 7 2021, In: Zootaxa. 4903, 2, p. 275-284 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Four new species of Serranochromis (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the Cuanza and Okavango river systems in Angola, including a preliminary key for the genus

Stauffer, J. R., Bills, R. & Skelton, P. H., Jan 13 2021, In: Zootaxa. 4908, 1, p. 66-84 19 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review