Sven Oscar Kullander (born 30 November 1952 in

Sollefteå Sollefteå () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Sollefteå Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden with 8,562 inhabitants in 2010. The earliest written account on Sollefteå is found in a script dating back to 1270. Duri ...

) is a

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

biologist A biologist is a scientist who conducts research in biology. Biologists are interested in studying life on Earth, whether it is an individual cell, a multicellular organism, or a community of interacting populations. They usually speciali ...

specialised in

ichthyology 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 Octob ...

. He primarily researches

cichlid 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 th ...

s – notably the genus '' Apistogramma'' and the '' Cichlasoma''-complex – and other tropical fresh water fishes. He also has been working with

endangered An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction. Endangered species may be at risk due to factors such as habitat loss, poaching and inv ...

fish species in Sweden. He studied at the universities of

Umeå Umeå ( , , , locally ; South Westrobothnian: ;). fi, Uumaja; sju, Ubmeje; sma, Upmeje; se, Ubmi) is a city in northeast Sweden. It is the seat of Umeå Municipality and the capital of Västerbotten County. Situated on the Ume River, U ...

and Stockholm, and took his Ph.D. in Stockholm in 1984. He is currently senior

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at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, with the responsibility for the ichthyologic and herpetologic collections. Kullander also coordinates the museum's contributions to

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. Kullander has produced more than 100 scientific and popular publications on fishes, and described many groups and new species of cichlids. The Swedish aquarists' magazine ''Tidskriften Akvariet'' gave him "Akvariets Oscar" ("the Aquarium Academy Award") in 1996, for his great contribution to the aquarium hobby. His wife

Fang Fang Kullander Fang Fang Kullander, ''née'' Fang Fang, (14 November 1962 – 19 May 2010) was a Swedish-Chinese ichthyologist. Early life Fang Fang was born on 14 November 1962 in Beijing, her parents were Fang Zongxian and Hang Mingxhien, both geologists. Fan ...

(1962–2010) was also an ichthyologist at the Swedish Museum.

Taxon named in his honor

The fish, a Pike Cichlid, ''

Crenicichla sveni ''Crenicichla sveni'' is a species of cichlid native to South America. It is found in the Orinoco River basin, in the Llanos of Venezuela and Colombia.. This species reaches a length of . The fish is named in honor of “Swedish cichlidologist� ...

'' Ploeg, 1991 was named in his honor.

Selected publications

*Kullander, S.O. 1983. ''A revision of the South American Cichlid genus Cichlasoma (Teleostei: Cichlidae)''. Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm. *Kullander, S.O. 1986. ''Cichlid fishes of the Amazon River drainage of Peru''. Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm. *Kullander, S.O. & H. Nijssen. 1989. ''The cichlids of Surinam: Teleostei, Labroidei.'' E.J. Brill, Leiden. *Kullander, S.O., T. Stach, H.G. Hansson, B. Delling & H. Blom. 2011. ''

Nationalnyckeln till Sveriges flora och fauna ''Nationalnyckeln till Sveriges flora och fauna'' (Swedish for "National Key to Sweden's Flora and Fauna") is a set of books, the first volume of which, ''Fjärilar: Dagfjärilar'' (Butterflies, 140 species), appeared on 25 April 2005. The publish ...

. Ryggsträngsdjur: lansettfiskar – broskfiskar, Chordata: Branchiostomatidae – Chondrichthyes.'' ArtDatabanken, Uppsala

Taxon described by him

*See :Taxa named by Sven O. Kullander

Sources

Sven O. Kullander
Swedish Museum of Natural History

(personal page)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kullander, Sven O. Swedish zoologists 1952 births Living people Swedish ichthyologists Umeå University alumni Stockholm University alumni