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Article Category: Obituary
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Online Publication Date: 14 Apr 2017

In Memoriam: Richard Peter Vari (August 24, 1949–January 15, 2016)

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Page Range: 147 – 160
DOI: 10.1643/CI-16-550
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Copyright: © 2017 by the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
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Richard Vari at his desk in the National Museum of Natural History near the end of his career. Rich chose this photograph as his profile picture on Facebook, which he joined in the last few years of his life. Photographer unknown, likely a Smithsonian employee.

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Rich Vari in 2004, surrounded by jars of preserved fishes in the collection at the National Museum of Natural History. Photo by Ali Khawaja, Smithsonian (image number 2004-11235).

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Unraveling a tangled gillnet in Guatemala, 1974. Left to right: Donn Rosen, Rich Vari, and unidentified field assistant. Photo courtesy of the late Carmela Rosen.

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Rich Vari in Suriname, South America, 1980, holding a newly captured and preserved electric eel. Photo by L. R. Parenti.

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Rich Vari (and a hippopotamus) at the shore on Lake Tanganyika, September 21, 2013, at the fifth international conference of the Pan-African Fish and Fisheries Association (PAFFA) in Bujumbura, Burundi. Photo courtesy of Fabio di Dario.

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Rich Vari on a rope bridge over the Kali Gandaki River in Nepal, mid 1980s. Photo by Vicki Funk.

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The Vari family at Ellen's undergraduate graduation in 2009. Left to right: Rich, Ann, Ellen, and Thomas. Photo courtesy of Ann Vari.

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