José Alvarez del Villar, Mexican ichthyologist (Zamora, Michoacán State 30 May 1908 – 1986)

Authored about 80 scientific works

DESCRIBED VALID FISH SPECIES

Algansea barbata 1964 with Cortés

Allotoca meeki 1959

Allotoca regalis 1959

Atherinella schultzi 1952 with Carranza

Chapalichthys pardalis 1963

Chapalichthys peraticus 1963

Chirostoma melanoccus 1963

Chirostoma reseratum 1963

Cynodontichthys hendrichsi 1952 with Carranza

Cyprinodon beltrani 1949 

Heterophallus echeagarayi 1952

Hyporhamphus mexicanus 1959

Poblana letholepis 1950

Poblana squamata 1950

Poecilia sulphuraria 1948

Priapella compressa 1948

Priapella intermedia 1952 with Carranza

Tampichthys ipni 1953 with Navarro

Tapatia occidentalis 1972 with Arriola (Fossil)

Tetrapleurodon geminis 1964

Xiphophorus clemenciae 1959

His son, José “Ticul” Alvarez Solorzano, vertebrate zoologist and paleontologist (Ciudad de Mexico 26 February 1935 – Ciudad de Mexico 2001)

Authored 132 papers

DESCRIBED VALID VERTEBRATE SPECIES

Living

Mammalia

Subspecies

Cratogeomys goldmani maculatus 1966

Microtus mexicanus ocotensis 1993 with Hernandez Chavez

Neotoma albigula subsolana 1962

Orthogeomys (Heterogeomys) hispidus latirostris 1961 with Hall

Peromyscus levipes ambiguous 1961

Spermophilus adocetus infernatus 1968 with Ramírez Pulido

Spermophilus (Ictidomys) spilosoma oricolus 1962

Reptilia

Species

Lepidophyma chicoasensis 1988 with Valentin

Lepidophyma tarascae 1982 with Bezy & Webb

Subspecies

Bipes caniculatus multiannulatus 1966 

Sceloporus torquatus mikeprestoni 1976 with Smith 

Amphibia

Species

Pseudoeurycea boneti 1967 with Martín

Fossil

Mammalia

Subgenus

Digonodonta 1994 with Hernandez Chavez

Species

Archaeolagus sonoranus 1963

Baiomys intermedius 1965 with Packard

Marmosa lorenzoi 1989 with Arroyo-Cabrales

Peromyscus maldonadoi 1966

Neotoma anomala 1994

Neotoma magnodonta 1966

Neotoma tlapacoyana 1994