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Brachirus Dicholepis
''Brachirus'' is a genus of small and medium-sized soles. Most are native to marine and brackish waters in the Indo-Pacific, but several species can also be seen freshwater in southern Asia, Eastern Africa, New Guinea and Australia. Species There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus: * '' Brachirus aenea'' ( H. M. Smith, 1931) * '' Brachirus annularis'' Fowler, 1934 (Annular sole) * '' Brachirus aspilos'' (Bleeker, 1852) * '' Brachirus dicholepis'' ( W. K. H. Peters, 1877) * '' Brachirus elongatus'' ( Pellegrin & Chevey, 1940) (Mekong blind sole) * ''Brachirus harmandi'' ( Sauvage, 1878) * '' Brachirus heterolepis'' (Bleeker, 1856) * '' Brachirus macrolepis'' (Bleeker, 1858) * '' Brachirus niger'' ( W. J. Macleay, 1880) (Black sole) * '' Brachirus orientalis'' (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Oriental sole) * '' Brachirus pan'' ( F. Hamilton, 1822) (Pan sole) * ''Brachirus panoides'' (Bleeker, 1851) * '' Brachirus selheimi'' ( W. J. Macleay, 1882) (Selheim's sole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William John Swainson
William John Swainson FLS, FRS (8 October 1789 – 6 December 1855), was an English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist and artist. Life Swainson was born in Dover Place, St Mary Newington, London, the eldest son of John Timothy Swainson the Second (1756–1824), an original fellow of the Linnean Society. He was cousin of the amateur botanist Isaac Swainson.Etymologisches Worterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen by H. Genaust. Review by Paul A. Fryxell ''Taxon'', Vol. 38(2), 245–246 (1989). His father's family originated in Lancashire, and both grandfather and father held high posts in Her Majesty's Customs, the father becoming Collector at Liverpool. William, whose formal education was curtailed because of an impediment in his speech, joined the Liverpool Customs as a junior clerk at the age of 14."William Swainson F.R.S, F.L.S., Naturalist and Artist: Diaries 1808–1838: Sicily, Malta, Greece, Italy and Brazil." G .M. Swainson, Palmerston, NZ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brachirus Elongatus
''Brachirus'' is a genus of small and medium-sized soles. Most are native to marine and brackish waters in the Indo-Pacific, but several species can also be seen freshwater in southern Asia, Eastern Africa, New Guinea and Australia. Species There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus: * ''Brachirus aenea'' ( H. M. Smith, 1931) * ''Brachirus annularis'' Fowler, 1934 (Annular sole) * ''Brachirus aspilos'' (Bleeker, 1852) * ''Brachirus dicholepis'' ( W. K. H. Peters, 1877) * '' Brachirus elongatus'' ( Pellegrin & Chevey, 1940) (Mekong blind sole) * ''Brachirus harmandi'' ( Sauvage, 1878) * ''Brachirus heterolepis'' (Bleeker, 1856) * ''Brachirus macrolepis'' (Bleeker, 1858) * ''Brachirus niger'' ( W. J. Macleay, 1880) (Black sole) * ''Brachirus orientalis'' (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Oriental sole) * ''Brachirus pan'' ( F. Hamilton, 1822) (Pan sole) * ''Brachirus panoides'' (Bleeker, 1851) * '' Brachirus selheimi'' ( W. J. Macleay, 1882) (Selheim's sole) * '' Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
Francis Buchanan (15 February 1762 – 15 June 1829), later known as Francis Hamilton but often referred to as Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, was a Scottish physician who made significant contributions as a geographer, zoologist, and botanist while living in India. He did not assume the name of Hamilton until three years after his retirement from India. The standard botanical author abbreviation Buch.-Ham. is applied to plants and animals he described, though today the form "Hamilton, 1822" is more usually seen in ichthyology and is preferred by Fishbase. Early life Francis Buchanan was born at Bardowie, Callander, Perthshire where Elizabeth, his mother, lived on the estate of Branziet; his father Thomas, a physician, came in Spittal and claimed the chiefdom of the name of Buchanan and owned the Leny estate. Francis Buchanan matriculated in 1774 and received an MA in 1779. As he had three older brothers, he had to earn a living from a profession, so Buchanan studied medicine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brachirus Pan
''Brachirus'' is a genus of small and medium-sized soles. Most are native to marine and brackish waters in the Indo-Pacific, but several species can also be seen freshwater in southern Asia, Eastern Africa, New Guinea and Australia. Species There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus: * ''Brachirus aenea'' ( H. M. Smith, 1931) * ''Brachirus annularis'' Fowler, 1934 (Annular sole) * ''Brachirus aspilos'' (Bleeker, 1852) * ''Brachirus dicholepis'' ( W. K. H. Peters, 1877) * '' Brachirus elongatus'' ( Pellegrin & Chevey, 1940) (Mekong blind sole) * ''Brachirus harmandi'' ( Sauvage, 1878) * ''Brachirus heterolepis'' (Bleeker, 1856) * ''Brachirus macrolepis'' (Bleeker, 1858) * ''Brachirus niger'' ( W. J. Macleay, 1880) (Black sole) * ''Brachirus orientalis'' (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Oriental sole) * '' Brachirus pan'' ( F. Hamilton, 1822) (Pan sole) * ''Brachirus panoides'' (Bleeker, 1851) * '' Brachirus selheimi'' ( W. J. Macleay, 1882) (Selheim's sole) * '' B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Gottlob Schneider
Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (18 January 1750 – 12 January 1822) was a German Empire, German classicist and natural history, naturalist. Biography Schneider was born at Collm in Saxony. In 1774, on the recommendation of Christian Gottlob Heine, he became secretary to the famous Strasbourg scholar Richard François Brunck, and in 1811 became professor of ancient languages and eloquence at Breslau (chief librarian, 1816) where he died in 1822. Works Of his numerous works the most important was his ''Kritisches griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch'' (1797–1798), the first independent work of the kind since Henri Estienne, Stephanus's ''Thesaurus'', and the basis of Franz Passow, F. Passow's and all succeeding Greek lexicons (including, therefore, the contemporary standard ''A Greek-English Lexicon''). A special improvement was the introduction of words and expressions connected with natural history and science. In 1801 he corrected and expanded re-published Marcus Elieser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Elieser Bloch
Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723–1799) was a German physician and naturalist who is best known for his contribution to ichthyology through his multi-volume catalog of plates illustrating the fishes of the world. Brought up in a Hebrew-speaking Jewish family, he learned German and Latin and studied anatomy before settling in Berlin as a physician. He amassed a large natural history collection, particularly of fish specimens. He is generally considered one of the most important ichthyology, ichthyologists of the 18th century, and wrote many papers on natural history, comparative anatomy, and physiology. Life Bloch was born at Ansbach in 1723 where his father was a Torah writer and his mother owned a small shop. Educated at home in Hebrew literature he became a private tutor in Hamburg for a Jewish surgeon. Here he learned German, Latin and anatomy. He then studied medicine in Berlin and received a doctorate in 1762 from Frankfurt (Oder), Frankfort on the Oder with a treatise on skin dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brachirus Orientalis
''Brachirus'' is a genus of small and medium-sized soles. Most are native to marine and brackish waters in the Indo-Pacific, but several species can also be seen freshwater in southern Asia, Eastern Africa, New Guinea and Australia. Species There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus: * ''Brachirus aenea'' ( H. M. Smith, 1931) * ''Brachirus annularis'' Fowler, 1934 (Annular sole) * ''Brachirus aspilos'' (Bleeker, 1852) * ''Brachirus dicholepis'' ( W. K. H. Peters, 1877) * '' Brachirus elongatus'' ( Pellegrin & Chevey, 1940) (Mekong blind sole) * ''Brachirus harmandi'' ( Sauvage, 1878) * ''Brachirus heterolepis'' (Bleeker, 1856) * ''Brachirus macrolepis'' (Bleeker, 1858) * ''Brachirus niger'' ( W. J. Macleay, 1880) (Black sole) * '' Brachirus orientalis'' (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Oriental sole) * '' Brachirus pan'' ( F. Hamilton, 1822) (Pan sole) * ''Brachirus panoides'' (Bleeker, 1851) * '' Brachirus selheimi'' ( W. J. Macleay, 1882) (Selheim's sole) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William John Macleay
Sir William John Macleay (13 June 1820 – 7 December 1891) was a Scottish-Australian politician, Natural history, naturalist, zoologist, and Herpetology, herpetologist. Early life Macleay was born at Wick, Highland, Wick, Caithness, Scotland, second son of Kenneth Macleay of Keiss and his wife Barbara, ''née'' Horne. Macleay was educated at the Edinburgh Academy 1834–36 and then to studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh; but when he was 18 years old his widowed mother died, and he decided to go to Australia with his cousin, William Sharp MacLeay. They arrived at Sydney in March 1839 on HMS Royal George (1827), HMS ''Royal George''. William Macleay took up land at first near Goulburn, New South Wales, Goulburn, and afterwards on the Murrumbidgee River. He is noted as the last of the naturalists in a family active in this field; his uncle was Alexander Macleay, Colonial Secretary of New South Wales from 1826 to 1836, and a member and fellow of societies concerned wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brachirus Niger
''Brachirus'' is a genus of small and medium-sized soles. Most are native to marine and brackish waters in the Indo-Pacific, but several species can also be seen freshwater in southern Asia, Eastern Africa, New Guinea and Australia. Species There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus: * '' Brachirus aenea'' ( H. M. Smith, 1931) * ''Brachirus annularis'' Fowler, 1934 (Annular sole) * ''Brachirus aspilos'' (Bleeker, 1852) * ''Brachirus dicholepis'' ( W. K. H. Peters, 1877) * '' Brachirus elongatus'' ( Pellegrin & Chevey, 1940) (Mekong blind sole) * ''Brachirus harmandi'' ( Sauvage, 1878) * ''Brachirus heterolepis'' (Bleeker, 1856) * ''Brachirus macrolepis'' (Bleeker, 1858) * '' Brachirus niger'' ( W. J. Macleay, 1880) (Black sole) * '' Brachirus orientalis'' (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Oriental sole) * '' Brachirus pan'' ( F. Hamilton, 1822) (Pan sole) * ''Brachirus panoides'' (Bleeker, 1851) * '' Brachirus selheimi'' ( W. J. Macleay, 1882) (Selheim's sole) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brachirus Macrolepis
''Brachirus'' is a genus of small and medium-sized soles. Most are native to marine and brackish waters in the Indo-Pacific, but several species can also be seen freshwater in southern Asia, Eastern Africa, New Guinea and Australia. Species There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus: * '' Brachirus aenea'' ( H. M. Smith, 1931) * '' Brachirus annularis'' Fowler, 1934 (Annular sole) * ''Brachirus aspilos'' (Bleeker, 1852) * ''Brachirus dicholepis'' ( W. K. H. Peters, 1877) * '' Brachirus elongatus'' ( Pellegrin & Chevey, 1940) (Mekong blind sole) * ''Brachirus harmandi'' ( Sauvage, 1878) * ''Brachirus heterolepis'' (Bleeker, 1856) * '' Brachirus macrolepis'' (Bleeker, 1858) * '' Brachirus niger'' ( W. J. Macleay, 1880) (Black sole) * '' Brachirus orientalis'' (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Oriental sole) * '' Brachirus pan'' ( F. Hamilton, 1822) (Pan sole) * ''Brachirus panoides'' (Bleeker, 1851) * '' Brachirus selheimi'' ( W. J. Macleay, 1882) (Selheim's sole) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brachirus Heterolepis
''Brachirus'' is a genus of small and medium-sized soles. Most are native to marine and brackish waters in the Indo-Pacific, but several species can also be seen freshwater in southern Asia, Eastern Africa, New Guinea and Australia. Species There are currently 18 recognized species in this genus: * '' Brachirus aenea'' ( H. M. Smith, 1931) * '' Brachirus annularis'' Fowler, 1934 (Annular sole) * '' Brachirus aspilos'' (Bleeker, 1852) * ''Brachirus dicholepis'' ( W. K. H. Peters, 1877) * '' Brachirus elongatus'' ( Pellegrin & Chevey, 1940) (Mekong blind sole) * ''Brachirus harmandi'' ( Sauvage, 1878) * '' Brachirus heterolepis'' (Bleeker, 1856) * '' Brachirus macrolepis'' (Bleeker, 1858) * '' Brachirus niger'' ( W. J. Macleay, 1880) (Black sole) * '' Brachirus orientalis'' (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Oriental sole) * '' Brachirus pan'' ( F. Hamilton, 1822) (Pan sole) * ''Brachirus panoides'' (Bleeker, 1851) * '' Brachirus selheimi'' ( W. J. Macleay, 1882) (Selheim's sole) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Émile Sauvage
Henri Émile Sauvage (22 September 1842 in Boulogne-sur-Mer – 3 January 1917 in Boulogne-sur-Mer) was a French paleontologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He was a leading expert on Mesozoic fish and reptiles.Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians: A Historical Perspective edited by Richard Moody He worked as a curator at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in , and published extensively on |
