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Foetorepus Masudai
''Foetorepus'' is a genus of dragonets. The validity of this genus has been questioned with some experts regarding it as a junior synonym of ''Synchiropus''. Species There are currently nine recognized species in this genus: * '' Foetorepus agassizii'' ( Goode & T. H. Bean, 1888) (Spotfin dragonet) * '' Foetorepus calauropomus'' ( J. Richardson, 1844) (Common stinkfish) * '' Foetorepus dagmarae'' ( R. Fricke, 1985) * '' Foetorepus garthi'' ( Seale, 1940) * '' Foetorepus kamoharai'' Nakabo, 1983 * '' Foetorepus masudai'' Nakabo, 1987 * ''Foetorepus paxtoni'' ( R. Fricke, 2000) * '' Foetorepus phasis'' ( Günther, 1880) (Bight stinkfish) * '' Foetorepus talarae'' (Hildebrand Hildebrand is a character from Germanic heroic legend. ''Hildebrand'' is the modern German form of the name: in Old High German it is ''Hiltibrant'' and in Old Norse ''Hildibrandr''. The word ''hild'' means "battle" and ''brand'' means "sword" ... & F. O. Barton, 1949) References Callionymidae M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Percy Whitley
Gilbert Percy Whitley (9 June 1903 – 18 July 1975) was a British-born Australian ichthyologist and malacologist who was curator of fishes at the Australian Museum in Sydney for about 40 years. Early life and education Gilbert Percy Whitley was born on 9 June 1903 at Swaythling, Southampton, England, the eldest child of Percy Nathan Whitley and Clara Minnie (née Moass). He was educated first at King Edward VI School, Southampton and then Osborne House School in Romsey, Hampshire. Whitley migrated with his family to Sydney Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Syd ... in 1921. He started working at the Australian Museum in 1922, while studying zoology at Sydney Technical College and the University of Sydney. Career In 1925 Whitley was formally appointed to the title of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvin Seale
Alvin Seale (July 8, 1871 – July 28, 1958) was a naturalist known for his aquarium design and as an ichthyologist. Early life Alvin Seale was born on July 8, 1871, in Fairmount, Indiana, to a family of Quakers. In 1892, he attended Stanford University, and was tutored by David Starr Jordan. Education In 1896, the year that Seale would have graduated from Stanford in zoology, he was picked by Professor Jordan, along with fellow student Norman B. Scofield, to go to Point Barrow in Alaska. His mission was to look for salmon in the Mackenzie River. Travels Before returning to Stanford Seale collected sea birds along the Alaskan coast on behalf of the British Museum. He also went with his roommate to the Klondike to join the gold rush there. According to Seale, his companion “struck it rich.” Seale, however, was too busy exploring the native wildlife to waste his time searching for gold. In his unpublished diary Seale writes that he spent “an exciting year." Polynesian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Callionymidae
Dragonets are small percomorph marine fish of the diverse family Callionymidae (from the Greek ''kallis'', "beautiful" and ', "name") found mainly in the tropical waters of the western Indo-Pacific. They are benthic organisms, spending most of their time near the sandy bottoms, at a depth of roughly two hundred meters. There exist 139 species of the fish, in nineteen genera. Due to similarities in morphology and behavior, dragonets are sometimes confused with members of the goby family. However, male dragonets can be differentiated from the goby by their very long dorsal fins, and females by their protruding lower jaws. The Draconettidae may be considered a sister family, whose members are very much alike, though rarely seen. Genera The following genera are classified within the Callionymidae: * '' Anaora'' J. E. Gray, 1835 * '' Bathycallionymus'' Nakabo, 1982 * ''Callionymus'' Linnaeus, 1758 (including '' Calliurichthys'') * '' Diplogrammus'' Gill, 1865 (including ''Chalin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otis Barton
Frederick Otis Barton Jr. (June 5, 1899 – April 15, 1992) was an American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor. Early life and career Born in New York, the independently wealthy Barton designed the first bathysphere and made a dive with William Beebe off Bermuda in June 1930. They set the first record for deep-sea diving by descending . In 1934, they set another record at . Barton acted in the 1938 Hollywood movie, '' Titans of the Deep''. Later career In 1949, Barton set a new world record with a 4,500 foot (1,372 m) dive in the Pacific Ocean, using his benthoscope (from the Greek ''benthos'', meaning 'sea bottom', and ''scopein'', 'to view'), which was designed by Barton and Maurice Nelles. Barton wrote the book ''The World Beneath the Sea'', published in 1953. Like Beebe, Barton was also interested in exploring tropical rain forests, and spent considerable time in places like Gabon. In 1978, Barton successfully tested a "jungle spaceship" (actually an airship An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Frederick Hildebrand
Samuel Frederick Hildebrand (August 15, 1883 – March 16, 1949) was an American ichthyologist. Life and work Hildebrand was the son of German-born parents who immigrated to the United States in 1864. From 1908 to 1910 he worked as an assistant to Seth Eugene Meek at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. In 1910 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana State Normal School and became a research associate at the United States Bureau of Fisheries in Washington, D.C., where he remained until 1914. From 1910 to 1912 he undertook, with Meek, two collecting expeditions to Panama from which he published ''The Fishes of the Fresh Waters of Panama'' (1916) and ''The Marine Fishes of Panama'' (1923). From 1914 to 1918 he was head of the U.S. Fisheries Biological Station at Beaufort, North Carolina. In 1918 he studied mosquito control by small fish in Augusta, Georgia. From 1918 to 1919 he was director of the U.S. Fisheries Biological Station in Key West, Florida. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foetorepus Talarae
''Foetorepus'' is a genus of dragonets. The validity of this genus has been questioned with some experts regarding it as a junior synonym of ''Synchiropus''. Species There are currently nine recognized species in this genus: * '' Foetorepus agassizii'' ( Goode & T. H. Bean, 1888) (Spotfin dragonet) * '' Foetorepus calauropomus'' ( J. Richardson, 1844) (Common stinkfish) * '' Foetorepus dagmarae'' ( R. Fricke, 1985) * '' Foetorepus garthi'' ( Seale, 1940) * '' Foetorepus kamoharai'' Nakabo, 1983 * ''Foetorepus masudai'' Nakabo, 1987 * ''Foetorepus paxtoni'' ( R. Fricke, 2000) * '' Foetorepus phasis'' ( Günther, 1880) (Bight stinkfish) * '' Foetorepus talarae'' (Hildebrand Hildebrand is a character from Germanic heroic legend. ''Hildebrand'' is the modern German form of the name: in Old High German it is ''Hiltibrant'' and in Old Norse ''Hildibrandr''. The word ''hild'' means "battle" and ''brand'' means "sword" ... & F. O. Barton, 1949) References Callionymidae Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foetorepus Phasis
The bight stinkfish (''Foetorepus phasis'') is a dragonet of the family Callionymidae, found in the eastern Indian and southwest Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is ...s, at depths of between 160 and 200 m. Length is up to 13 cm. References * * Callionymidae Fish described in 1880 Taxa named by Albert Günther {{Callionymidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foetorepus Paxtoni
''Foetorepus'' is a genus of dragonets. The validity of this genus has been questioned with some experts regarding it as a junior synonym of ''Synchiropus''. Species There are currently nine recognized species in this genus: * ''Foetorepus agassizii'' (George Brown Goode, Goode & Tarleton Hoffman Bean, T. H. Bean, 1888) (Spotfin dragonet) * ''Foetorepus calauropomus'' (John Richardson (naturalist), J. Richardson, 1844) (Common stinkfish) * ''Foetorepus dagmarae'' (Ronald Fricke, R. Fricke, 1985) * ''Foetorepus garthi'' (Alvin Seale, Seale, 1940) * ''Foetorepus kamoharai'' Tetsuji Nakabo, Nakabo, 1983 * ''Foetorepus masudai'' Nakabo, 1987 * ''Foetorepus paxtoni'' (Ronald Fricke, R. Fricke, 2000) * ''Foetorepus phasis'' (Albert Günther, Günther, 1880) (Bight stinkfish) * ''Foetorepus talarae'' (Samuel Frederick Hildebrand, Hildebrand & Otis Barton, F. O. Barton, 1949) References Callionymidae Marine fish genera Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley {{Callionymidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetsuji Nakabo
Tetsuji (written: 哲二, 哲治, 鉄二, 鉄史, 轍次 or 徹治) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese footballer and manager *, Japanese golfer *, Japanese mixed martial artist *, Japanese lexicographer and sinologist * Tetsuji Murakami (1927–1987), Japanese karateka *, Japanese politician *, Japanese mathematician *, Japanese theatre and film director *, Japanese actor {{given name Japanese masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foetorepus Kamoharai
''Foetorepus'' is a genus of dragonets. The validity of this genus has been questioned with some experts regarding it as a junior synonym of ''Synchiropus''. Species There are currently nine recognized species in this genus: * '' Foetorepus agassizii'' ( Goode & T. H. Bean, 1888) (Spotfin dragonet) * '' Foetorepus calauropomus'' ( J. Richardson, 1844) (Common stinkfish) * '' Foetorepus dagmarae'' ( R. Fricke, 1985) * '' Foetorepus garthi'' ( Seale, 1940) * '' Foetorepus kamoharai'' Nakabo, 1983 * ''Foetorepus masudai'' Nakabo, 1987 * ''Foetorepus paxtoni'' ( R. Fricke, 2000) * ''Foetorepus phasis'' ( Günther, 1880) (Bight stinkfish) * ''Foetorepus talarae'' (Hildebrand Hildebrand is a character from Germanic heroic legend. ''Hildebrand'' is the modern German form of the name: in Old High German it is ''Hiltibrant'' and in Old Norse ''Hildibrandr''. The word ''hild'' means "battle" and ''brand'' means "sword" ... & F. O. Barton, 1949) References Callionymidae Mari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |