Wendell Lee Minckley (November 13, 1935 – June 22, 2001) was a college professor and leading expert on fish. He spent most of his career at Arizona State University.

In 1963, he, with Robert Rush Miller, discovered and named the northern platyfish (Xiphophorus gordoni) in honor of Dr. Myron Gordon. Dr. Minckley, in turn, had five species named in his honor.

Dr. Minckley died on June 22, 2001, in Desert Samaritan Hospital in Mesa, Arizona, from complications associated with treatment for cancer.

The freshwater snail genus Minckleyella Hershler, Liu & Landye, 2011 is named in honor of him.^[1]

Minckley's cichlid Herichthys minckleyi is named after him.^[2]

• Category:Taxa named by Wendell L. Minckley

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• Xiphophorus gordoni, a New Species ... Copeia Sept 25 1963

• Works by Wendell L. Minckley at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Wendell L. Minckley at the Internet Archive