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