Delémont
Delémont (; ; , ) is the capital of the Swiss canton of Jura. The city has approximately 12,000 inhabitants .
History
The area of the municipality was already settled in the middle Bronze Age. Fifteen urn burials have been discovered in the ...
,
Switzerland
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Commissioners: Dr Maurice Kottelat International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (accessed 2014)) is a
Swiss
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ichthyologist
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specializing in Eurasian freshwater fishes.
Kottelat obtained a License in Sciences at the
University of Neuchâtel
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in 1987 and in 1989 a doctoral degree from the
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
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he worked in
Sumatra
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, where they discovered ''
Paedocypris progenetica
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'', which is considered the
smallest fish
The world's smallest fish depends on the measurement used.
Based on minimum standard length at maturity the main contenders are '' Paedocypris progenetica'' where females can reach it at ,Maurice Kottelat, Ralf Britz,
Heok Hui Tan
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Jörg Freyhof
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. Kottelat has described more than 440 fish species new to science.
In 2006 he was awarded a
Doctor Honoris Causa
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degree at the
University of Neuchâtel
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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.
monospecific genus
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Fang
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Turan
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Turan
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,
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,
Kaya
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* Kaya Airport, serving the town
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Tondanichthys kottelati
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