Jacques Daget (30 June 1919, Vineuil – 29 June 2009), was a French

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, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of Octobe ...

. He was a professor at the National Museum of Natural History, in Paris. Several marine species have been named after him.

Species named after him

Species named after Daget include: * Claroteidae ''Chrysichthys dageti'' Risch 1992 *

Cichlidae Cichlids are fish from the family Cichlidae in the order Cichliformes. Cichlids were traditionally classed in a suborder, the Labroidei, along with the wrasses ( Labridae), in the order Perciformes, but molecular studies have contradicted thi ...

''Tilapia dageti'' Thys van den Audenaerde 1971 * Nothobranchiidae ''Epiplatys dageti dageti'' Poll, 1953 * Nothobranchiidae ''Epiplatys dageti monroviae'' Arnoult & Daget 1965

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Daget, Jacques 1919 births 2009 deaths French ichthyologists 20th-century French zoologists

Species named after him

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