Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
Commissioners: Dr Maurice Kottelat International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (accessed 2014)) is a
Swiss
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ichthyologist
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University of Amsterdam
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. In 1980 he went to
Thailand
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where he began his
field research
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on
Southeast Asia
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n and Indonesian fresh water fishes. In 1997 he wrote an important revision on the genus ''
Coregonus
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'', which includes the fish species from
Lake Geneva
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Lake Constance
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and other lakes in Switzerland. Together with Dr. Tan Heok Hui he worked in
Sumatra
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International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
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Orga ...
. For most of his career, he has held no academic position but worked as a "freelance taxonomist".
Publications (selected)
*1990 Maurice Kottelat: ''Indochinese Nemacheilines, a revision of nemacheiline loaches (Pisces: Cypriniformes) of Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia and southern Viet Nam.'' 180 text-figures. 8vo, pp. 262Zoobank /ref>
*1996 Maurice Kottelat & Tony Whitten: ''Freshwater Biodiversity in Asia: With Special Reference to Fish''Library Catalog Smithsonian Institution Libraries /ref>
*1997 Maurice Kottelat: ''European Freshwater fishes. An heuristic checklist of the freshwater fishes of Europe (exclusive of former USSR), with an introduction for non-systematists and comments on nomenclature and conservation''. Biologia (Bratislava) Sect. Zool., 52 (Suppl.):1-271.
*1997 Maurice Kottelat: ''Freshwater Fishes of Western Indonesia and Sulawesi''
*1998 Maurice Kottelat: ''Fishes of Brazil - An Aid to the Study of Spix and Agassiz's (1829-31) Selecta Genera et Species Piscium Brasiliensium'' Including an English Translation of the Entire Text by V.L. Wirasinha and Reproduction of all Illustrations
*1998 Maurice Kottelat: Fishes of the Nam Theun and Xe Bangfai basins, Laos, with diagnoses of twenty-two new species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae, Balitoridae, Cobitidae, Coiidae and Odontobutidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 9(1):1-128.
*2001 Maurice Kottelat : ''Fishes of Laos''
*2001 Maurice Kottelat: ''Freshwater fishes of Northern Vietnam: A preliminary check-list of the fishes known or expected to occur in Northern Vietnam : with comments on systematics and nomenclature''
*2007 Maurice Kottelat & Jörg Freyhof: ''Handbook of European Freshwater Fishes'' Published by the authors.
*2012 Maurice Kottelat ''Raffles Bulletin of Zoology'', Supplement 26: 1–199.
*2013 Maurice Kottelat ''Raffles Bulletin of Zoology'', Supplement 27: 1–663.
Doğan Doğan is both a masculine Turkish given name and a Turkish surname meaning ''Falcon''. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
* Doğan Abukay, Turkish experimental physicist and academic
* Doğan Akhanlı (1957–2021) Turkish-German w ...