Teodor T. Nalbant (December 18, 1933 – November 12, 2011) was a

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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 ...

. Born in Constanţa, near the

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, Nalbant spent some of his childhood among

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in the

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.Modest Guţu,
In memoriam: TEODOR T. NALBANT
", ''Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle «Grigore Antipa»'' (2012), Vol. LV (1) pp. 181–183. After finishing high school, he studied

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, first in

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, and then at the

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. While in Cluj, Nalbant befriended

Petre Mihai Bănărescu Petre Mihai Bănărescu (born 15 September 1921 in Craiova, Dolj County – died 12 May 2009 in Bucharest) was a Romanian people, Romanian ichthyologist. Bănărescu was a list of members of the Romanian Academy, member of the Romanian Academy. ...

, who would become a collaborator on many publications. Nalbant published over 150 papers on a variety of subjects in and related to his field. He worked at the

Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History The Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History () is a natural history museum, located in Bucharest, Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. I ...

and participated in numerous expeditions to regions of the

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and

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Taxa named for Nalbant include genus '' Nalbantichtys'' (Schultz, 1967), subgenus '' Nalbantius'' (Mauge and Bauchot, 1984) and species '' Schistura nalbanti'' (Mîrza and Bănărescu, 1979) and '' Cyclaspis nalbanti'' (Petrescu, 1998).

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