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Bathydraco Joannae
''Bathydraco'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Bathydraconidae, the Antarctic dragonfishes. They are native to the Southern Ocean. Taxonomy ''Bathydraco'' was first described as a genus in 1878 by the German-born British ichthyologist Albert Günther as a monotypic genus with '' B. antarctica'', which had been collected on the ''Challenger'' expedition south of Heard Island, as its type species. The generic name ''Bathydraco'' is a combination of ''bathy'' meaning "deep" and ''draco'' meaning dragon, the type of ''B. antarctica'' was collected at and ''draco'' is a commonly used suffix for Notothenioids. Species There are currently five recognized species in this genus: * ''Bathydraco antarcticus'' Günther, 1878 * '' Bathydraco joannae'' H. H. DeWitt, 1985 * ''Bathydraco macrolepis'' Boulenger, 1907 * ''Bathydraco marri'' Norman, 1938 (Deep-water dragon) * ''Bathydraco scotiae ''Bathydraco'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging ...
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Albert Günther
Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther , also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3October 18301February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Günther is ranked the second-most productive reptile taxonomist (after George Albert Boulenger) with more than 340 reptile species described. Early life and career Günther was born in Esslingen in Swabia ( Württemberg). His father was a ''Stiftungs-Commissar'' in Esslingen and his mother was Eleonora Nagel. He initially schooled at the Stuttgart Gymnasium. His family wished him to train for the ministry of the Lutheran Church for which he moved to the University of Tübingen. A brother shifted from theology to medicine, and he, too, turned to science and medicine at Tübingen in 1852. His first work was "''Ueber den Puppenzustand eines Distoma''" (On the pupal state of ''Distoma''). He graduated in medicine with an M.D. from Tübingen in 1858, the same year in which he published a handbook ...
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Type Species
In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological Type (biology), type wiktionary:en:specimen, specimen (or specimens). Article 67.1 A similar concept is used for suprageneric groups and called a type genus. In botanical nomenclature, these terms have no formal standing under the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, code of nomenclature, but are sometimes borrowed from zoological nomenclature. In botany, the type of a genus name is a specimen (or, rarely, an illustration) which is also the type of a species name. The species name with that type can also be referred to as the type of the genus name. Names of genus and family ranks, the various subdivisions of those ranks, and some higher-rank names based on genus names, have suc ...
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Louis Dollo
Louis Antoine Marie Joseph Dollo (; 7 December 1857 – 19 April 1931) was a Belgian palaeontologist, known for his work on dinosaurs. He also posited that evolution is not reversible, known as Dollo's law. Together with the Austrian Othenio Abel, Dollo established the principles of paleobiology. Early life Louis Dollo was born in Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, a scion of an old Breton family. He studied at the École centrale de Lille, with geologist Jules Gosselet and zoologist Alfred Giard, both of whom influenced the young Dollo. In 1877, he graduated with a degree in engineering. After his graduation, he worked in the mining industry for five years, but simultaneously developed a passion for paleontology. In 1879, he moved to Brussels. ''Iguanodon'' spp. For three years, starting in 1878, he supervised the excavation of the famous, multiple ''Iguanodon'' find at Bernissart, Belgium. He devoted himself to their study as a scientific passion, initially concurrently with hi ...
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Bathydraco Scotiae
''Bathydraco'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Bathydraconidae, the Antarctic dragonfishes. They are native to the Southern Ocean. Taxonomy ''Bathydraco'' was first described as a genus in 1878 by the German-born British ichthyologist Albert Günther as a monotypic genus with '' B. antarctica'', which had been collected on the ''Challenger'' expedition south of Heard Island, as its type species. The generic name ''Bathydraco'' is a combination of ''bathy'' meaning "deep" and ''draco'' meaning dragon, the type of ''B. antarctica'' was collected at and ''draco'' is a commonly used suffix for Notothenioids. Species There are currently five recognized species in this genus: * ''Bathydraco antarcticus'' Günther, 1878 * '' Bathydraco joannae'' H. H. DeWitt, 1985 * '' Bathydraco macrolepis'' Boulenger, 1907 * '' Bathydraco marri'' Norman Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Nor ...
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John Roxborough Norman
John Roxborough Norman (1898, Wandsworth, London – 26 May 1944, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire) was an English ichthyologist. He started as a clerk in a bank. His lifetime affliction with rheumatic fever began during his military service during the First World War. He entered the British Museum in 1921 where he worked for Charles Tate Regan (1878–1943). From 1939 to 1944, he was in charge of the Natural History Museum at Tring as the Curator of Zoology. Norman was the author of, among others, ''A History of Fishes'' (1931) and ''A Draft Synopsis of the Orders, Families and Genera of Recent Fishes'' (1957). He was considered closer to Albert Günther (1830–1914) than to Regan. Taxon described by him *See :Taxa named by John Roxborough Norman Taxon named in his honor *The fish ''Acnodon normani'' William Alonzo Gosline III, Gosline, 1951 *The fish ''Physiculus normani'' Rainer Brüss, Brüss, 1986 *The fish ''Poropanchax normani'' (Ernst Ahl, Ahl, 1928) *The mote sculpin ''Norm ...
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Bathydraco Marri
''Bathydraco'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Bathydraconidae, the Antarctic dragonfishes. They are native to the Southern Ocean. Taxonomy ''Bathydraco'' was first described as a genus in 1878 by the German-born British ichthyologist Albert Günther as a monotypic genus with '' B. antarctica'', which had been collected on the ''Challenger'' expedition south of Heard Island, as its type species. The generic name ''Bathydraco'' is a combination of ''bathy'' meaning "deep" and ''draco'' meaning dragon, the type of ''B. antarctica'' was collected at and ''draco'' is a commonly used suffix for Notothenioids. Species There are currently five recognized species in this genus: * ''Bathydraco antarcticus'' Günther, 1878 * '' Bathydraco joannae'' H. H. DeWitt, 1985 * '' Bathydraco macrolepis'' Boulenger, 1907 * '' Bathydraco marri'' Norman, 1938 (Deep-water dragon) * ''Bathydraco scotiae ''Bathydraco'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belongi ...
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George Albert Boulenger
George Albert Boulenger (19 October 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a Belgian-British zoologist who described and gave scientific names to over 2,000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles, and amphibians. Boulenger was also an active botanist during the last 30 years of his life, especially in the study of roses. Life Boulenger was born in Brussels, Belgium, the only son of Gustave Boulenger, a Belgian public notary, and Juliette Piérart, from Valenciennes. He graduated in 1876 from the Free University of Brussels (1834–1969), Free University of Brussels with a degree in natural sciences, and worked for a while at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, as an assistant naturalist studying amphibians, reptiles, and fishes. He also made frequent visits during this time to the ''National Museum of Natural History (France), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle'' in Paris and the Natural History Museum, London, British Museum in London. Boulenger develop ...
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Bathydraco Macrolepis
''Bathydraco'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Bathydraconidae, the Antarctic dragonfishes. They are native to the Southern Ocean. Taxonomy ''Bathydraco'' was first described as a genus in 1878 by the German-born British ichthyologist Albert Günther as a monotypic genus with '' B. antarctica'', which had been collected on the ''Challenger'' expedition south of Heard Island, as its type species. The generic name ''Bathydraco'' is a combination of ''bathy'' meaning "deep" and ''draco'' meaning dragon, the type of ''B. antarctica'' was collected at and ''draco'' is a commonly used suffix for Notothenioids. Species There are currently five recognized species in this genus: * ''Bathydraco antarcticus'' Günther, 1878 * '' Bathydraco joannae'' H. H. DeWitt, 1985 * '' Bathydraco macrolepis'' Boulenger, 1907 * ''Bathydraco marri'' Norman, 1938 (Deep-water dragon) * ''Bathydraco scotiae ''Bathydraco'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belongin ...
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Hugh Hamilton DeWitt
Hugh Hamilton DeWitt (28 December 1933 – 5 January 1995) was an American ichthyologist, marine biologist and oceanographer. Early life and education DeWitt was born on 28 December 1933 in San Jose, California, son of Carl Bryce Seligman, a country doctor, and Honor Pettit Seligman, a teacher of mathematics and Latin. His surname at birth was Seligman but at his father's urging he and his brothers changed their name to DeWitt in the 1950s, a name from their mother's side of the family, as they had encountered mistaken preconceptions while attending High Schools in the eastern United States. His brothers were the theoretical physicist Bryce Seligman DeWitt, Lloyd Lewis DeWitt (1926-1988), who joined the United States Foreign Service and Hiram Pettit DeWitt (b.1936), a teacher. He grew up largely in California, leaving to attend high school at the Putney School in Vermont. He returned to California to enrol at Stanford University, gaining his bachelor's degree in 1955, masters in 19 ...
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Bathydraco Joannae
''Bathydraco'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Bathydraconidae, the Antarctic dragonfishes. They are native to the Southern Ocean. Taxonomy ''Bathydraco'' was first described as a genus in 1878 by the German-born British ichthyologist Albert Günther as a monotypic genus with '' B. antarctica'', which had been collected on the ''Challenger'' expedition south of Heard Island, as its type species. The generic name ''Bathydraco'' is a combination of ''bathy'' meaning "deep" and ''draco'' meaning dragon, the type of ''B. antarctica'' was collected at and ''draco'' is a commonly used suffix for Notothenioids. Species There are currently five recognized species in this genus: * ''Bathydraco antarcticus'' Günther, 1878 * '' Bathydraco joannae'' H. H. DeWitt, 1985 * ''Bathydraco macrolepis'' Boulenger, 1907 * ''Bathydraco marri'' Norman, 1938 (Deep-water dragon) * ''Bathydraco scotiae ''Bathydraco'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging ...
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Heard Island
The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) is an Australian external territory comprising a volcanic group of mostly barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica. The group's overall land area is and it has of coastline. Discovered in the mid-19th century, the islands lie on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Indian Ocean and have been an Australian territory since 1947. Heard Island and McDonald Islands contain Australia's only two active volcanoes. The summit of one, Mawson Peak, is higher than any mountain in all other Australian states, territories or claimed territories, except Dome Argus, Mount McClintock and Mount Menzies in the Australian Antarctic Territory. This Antarctic territory is a land claim unrecognised by most other countries, meaning that Mawson Peak is the highest mountain with undisputed Australian sovereignty. The islands are among the most remote places on Earth: They are located about southwest of ...
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