Daniel Morris Cohen (6 July 1930 - 26 September 2017) was an American

ichthyologist Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish (Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 35,800 species of fish had been described as of March 2 ...

who was known for his studies on the taxonomy of

salmonid Salmonidae (, ) is a family of ray-finned fish, the only extant member of the suborder Salmonoidei, consisting of 11 extant genera and over 200 species collectively known as "salmonids" or "salmonoids". The family includes salmon (both Atlantic a ...

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, and ophidiiform fishes. Cohen mainly studied the taxonomy of deep-sea fishes in the orders Salmoniformes, Gadiformes, and Ophidiformes. He held the post of professor of biology at the

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and a preem ...

for one year. He then took an appointment at the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Ichthyological Laboratory in

Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac River, across from Virginia, and shares land borders with ...

as a systematic zoologist. He stayed there for 23 years before moving to California to become the Chief Curator of Life Sciences at the

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Nature is an inherent character or constitution, particularly of the ecosphere or the universe as a whole. In this general sense nature refers to the laws, elements and phenomena of the physical world, including life. Although humans are par ...

. Cohen was the deputy director for Research and Collections when he retired in 1995.

Taxon described by him

*See :Taxa named by Daniel Morris Cohen *'' Argentina aliceae'' Cohen & Atsaides 1969 *'' Argentina brucei'' Cohen & Atsaides 1969 *'' Argentina euchus'' Cohen 1961 *'' Argentina stewarti'' Cohen & Atsaides 1969 *'' Glossanodon mildredae'' Cohen & Atsaides 1969 *'' Glossanodon polli'' Cohen 1958 *'' Glossanodon struhsakeri'' Cohen 1970 *'' Glossanodon pygmaeus'' Cohen 1958 *'' Bathylagichthys greyae'' (Cohen 1958) *'' Bathylychnops exilis'' Cohen 1958 *'' Nansenia candida'' Cohen 1958 *'' Bidenichthys paxtoni'' (Nielsen & Cohen 1986) *'' Thermichthys hollisi'' Cohen & Rosenbladt, 1990 *'' Liparis newmani'' Cohen 1960 *'' Paraliparis calidus'' Cohen 1968 *'' Lycenchelys bullisi'' Cohen 1964 *'' Thermarces andersoni'' Rosenblatt & Cohen 1986 *'' Paraliparis calidus'' Cohen 1968

Taxon named in his honor

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Physiculus coheni ''Physiculus coheni'' is a species of bathydemersal fish found in the eastern-central Pacific Ocean. Etymology The fish is named in honor of Daniel M. Cohen (1930–2017), of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Nature is an ...

'' Paulin, 1989 is a bathydemersal fish found in the Eastern Central

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 ...

. *'' Glossanodon danieli'' Parin & Shcherbachev 1982 *'' Liparis coheni'' Able 1976 *''

Nezumia coheni ''Nezumia'' is a genus of rattails. The generic name derives from the Japanese 鼠 (''nezumi''), meaning "mouse". Species There are currently 53 recognized species in this genus: * '' Nezumia aequalis'' ( Günther, 1878) (Common Atlantic grena ...

'' Iwamoto & Merrett 1997

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cohen, Daniel Morris American ichthyologists 1930 births 2016 deaths