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Bairdiella Ensifera
''Bairdiella'' is a genus of fish in the family Sciaenidae. Species There are currently six recognized species in this genus: *''Bairdiella armata'' Gill, 1863 – armed croaker *''Bairdiella chrysoura'' (Lacépède, 1802) – silver perch *''Bairdiella ensifera'' (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) – swordspine croaker *''Bairdiella icistia'' (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) – ronco croaker *''Bairdiella ronchus'' (Cuvier, 1830) – ground croaker *''Bairdiella sanctaeluciae The striped croaker is a U.S. National Marine Fisheries Servicebr>Species of Concern Species of Concern are those species about which the U.S. Government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The National Oceanic and Atmospher ...'' (Jordan, 1890) References Sciaenidae {{Perciformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bairdiella Chrysoura
The American silver perch, ''Bairdiella chrysoura'', is an American fish. Widespread on the eastern seaboard, the silver perch is commonly caught by inshore anglers in search of larger species. This fish is common up to , but can be found uncommonly to . Description The American silver perch has a moderately large, obliquely rising terminal mouth. The lower jaw projects further than the upper jaw. The chin does not bear a barbel but has three pairs of mental pores (the arrangement of the barbels and under-chin pores provides a means to distinguish between different members of the family Sciaenidae). The preopercle, the bony plate just in front of the operculum, bears a few spines set at an angle. The dorsal fin has ten to eleven spines and nineteen to twenty-three soft rays. The anal fin has two spines, the second of which is sharp and more than two thirds the length of the first soft ray, and eight to ten soft rays. This fish has a two-chambered swim bladder which is connected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Germain De Lacépède
Bernard-Germain-Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède or La Cépède (; 26 December 17566 October 1825) was a French naturalist and an active freemason. He is known for his contribution to the Comte de Buffon's great work, the ''Histoire Naturelle''. Biography Lacépède was born at Agen in Guienne. His education was carefully conducted by his father, and the early perusal of Buffon's Natural History ('' Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière'') awakened his interest in that branch of study, which absorbed his chief attention. His leisure he devoted to music, in which, besides becoming a good performer on the piano and organ, he acquired considerable mastery of composition, two of his operas (which were never published) meeting with the high approval of Gluck; in 1781–1785 he also brought out in two volumes his ''Poétique de la musique''. Meantime he wrote two treatises, ''Essai sur l'électricité'' (1781) and ''Physique générale et particuliè ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Cuvier
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (; 23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French natural history, naturalist and zoology, zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils. Cuvier's work is considered the foundation of vertebrate paleontology, and he expanded Linnaean taxonomy by grouping classes into phylum, phyla and incorporating both fossils and living species into the classification. Cuvier is also known for establishing extinction as a fact—at the time, extinction was considered by many of Cuvier's contemporaries to be merely controversial speculation. In his ''Essay on the Theory of the Earth'' (1813) Cuvier proposed that now-extinct species had been wiped out by periodic catastrophi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bairdiella Ronchus
''Bairdiella'' is a genus of fish in the family Sciaenidae. Species There are currently six recognized species in this genus: *''Bairdiella armata'' Gill, 1863 – armed croaker *''Bairdiella chrysoura'' (Lacépède, 1802) – silver perch *''Bairdiella ensifera'' (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) – swordspine croaker *''Bairdiella icistia'' (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) – ronco croaker *''Bairdiella ronchus'' (Cuvier, 1830) – ground croaker *''Bairdiella sanctaeluciae The striped croaker is a U.S. National Marine Fisheries Servicebr>Species of Concern Species of Concern are those species about which the U.S. Government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The National Oceanic and Atmospher ...'' (Jordan, 1890) References Sciaenidae {{Perciformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bairdiella Icistia
''Bairdiella'' is a genus of fish in the family Sciaenidae. Species There are currently six recognized species in this genus: *''Bairdiella armata'' Gill, 1863 – armed croaker *''Bairdiella chrysoura'' (Lacépède, 1802) – silver perch *''Bairdiella ensifera'' (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) – swordspine croaker *''Bairdiella icistia'' (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) – ronco croaker *''Bairdiella ronchus'' (Cuvier, 1830) – ground croaker *''Bairdiella sanctaeluciae The striped croaker is a U.S. National Marine Fisheries Servicebr>Species of Concern Species of Concern are those species about which the U.S. Government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The National Oceanic and Atmospher ...'' (Jordan, 1890) References Sciaenidae {{Perciformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Henry Gilbert
Charles Henry Gilbert (December 5, 1859 in Rockford, Illinois – April 20, 1928 in Palo Alto, California) was a pioneer ichthyologist and Fisheries science, fishery biologist of particular significance to natural history of the western United States. He collected and studied fishes from Central America north to Alaska and described many new species. Later he became an expert on Pacific salmon and was a noted conservation movement, conservationist of the Pacific Northwest. He is considered by many as the intellectual founder of American fisheries biology. He was one of the 22 "pioneer professors" (founding faculty) of Stanford University. Early life and education Born in Rockford, Illinois, Gilbert spent his early years in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he came under the influence of his high school teacher, David Starr Jordan (1851‒1931). When Jordan became Professor of Natural History at Butler University in Indianapolis, Gilbert followed and received his B.A. degree in 187 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Starr Jordan
David Starr Jordan (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was the founding president of Stanford University, serving from 1891 to 1913. He was an ichthyologist during his research career. Prior to serving as president of Stanford University, he had served as president of Indiana University from 1884 to 1891. Starr was also a strong supporter of eugenics, and his published views expressed a fear of "race-degeneration" and asserted that cattle and human beings are "governed by the same laws of selection". He was an antimilitarist since he believed that war killed off the best members of the gene pool, and he initially opposed American involvement in World War I. Early life and career Jordan was born in Gainesville, New York, and grew up on a farm in upstate New York. His parents made the unorthodox decision to educate him at a local girls' high school. His middle name, Starr, does not appear in early census records, and was apparently self-selected; he had begun using ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bairdiella Ensifera
''Bairdiella'' is a genus of fish in the family Sciaenidae. Species There are currently six recognized species in this genus: *''Bairdiella armata'' Gill, 1863 – armed croaker *''Bairdiella chrysoura'' (Lacépède, 1802) – silver perch *''Bairdiella ensifera'' (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) – swordspine croaker *''Bairdiella icistia'' (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) – ronco croaker *''Bairdiella ronchus'' (Cuvier, 1830) – ground croaker *''Bairdiella sanctaeluciae The striped croaker is a U.S. National Marine Fisheries Servicebr>Species of Concern Species of Concern are those species about which the U.S. Government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The National Oceanic and Atmospher ...'' (Jordan, 1890) References Sciaenidae {{Perciformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bairdiella Armata
''Bairdiella'' is a genus of fish in the family Sciaenidae. Species There are currently six recognized species in this genus: *''Bairdiella armata'' Gill, 1863 – armed croaker *''Bairdiella chrysoura'' (Lacépède, 1802) – silver perch *''Bairdiella ensifera'' (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) – swordspine croaker *''Bairdiella icistia'' (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) – ronco croaker *''Bairdiella ronchus'' (Cuvier, 1830) – ground croaker *''Bairdiella sanctaeluciae The striped croaker is a U.S. National Marine Fisheries Servicebr>Species of Concern Species of Concern are those species about which the U.S. Government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The National Oceanic and Atmospher ...'' (Jordan, 1890) References Sciaenidae {{Perciformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animal
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the Kingdom (biology), biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals Heterotroph, consume organic material, Cellular respiration#Aerobic respiration, breathe oxygen, are Motility, able to move, can Sexual reproduction, reproduce sexually, and go through an ontogenetic stage in which their body consists of a hollow sphere of Cell (biology), cells, the blastula, during Embryogenesis, embryonic development. Over 1.5 million Extant taxon, living animal species have been Species description, described—of which around 1 million are Insecta, insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million animal species in total. Animals range in length from to . They have Ecology, complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs. The scientific study of animals is known as zoology. Most living animal species are in Bilateria, a clade whose members have a Symmetry in biology#Bilate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family (taxonomy), family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodore Nicholas Gill
Theodore Nicholas Gill (March 21, 1837 – September 25, 1914) was an American ichthyologist, mammalogist, malacologist and librarian. Career Born and educated in New York City under private tutors, Gill early showed interest in natural history. He was associated with J. Carson Brevoort in the arrangement of the latter's entomological and ichthyological collections before going to Washington D.C. in 1863 to work at the Smithsonian Institution. He catalogued mammals, fishes and mollusks most particularly although maintaining proficiency in other orders of animals. He was librarian at the Smithsonian and also senior assistant to the Library of Congress. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1867. Gill was professor of zoology at George Washington University. He was also a member of the Megatherium Club at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Fellow members frequently mocked him for his vanity. He was president of the American Association f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
