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Caesio Striata
''Caesio'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, fusiliers belonging to the family Caesionidae. They are native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean, although one species has invaded the eastern Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal by Lessepsian migration. Taxonomy ''Caesio'' was created in 1801 by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède when he described ''Caesio caerilaurea''. In 1876 the Dutch ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker designated ''C. caerulaurea'' as the type species of the genus ''Caesio''. The genus name, ''Caesio'', means ”blue”. Species Currently, 9 species in this genus are recognized, organised into three subgenera according to some authorities: * Subgenus ''Caesio'' ** '' Caesio caerulaurea'' Lacépède, 1801 – blue and gold fusilier ** ''Caesio striata'' Rüppell, 1830 – striated fusilier ** ''Caesio varilineata'' K. E. Carpenter, 1987 – variable-lined fusilier ** ''Caesio xanthalytos'' Holleman, Connell & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Réunion
Réunion (; french: La Réunion, ; previously ''Île Bourbon''; rcf, label= Reunionese Creole, La Rényon) is an island in the Indian Ocean that is an overseas department and region of France. It is located approximately east of the island of Madagascar and southwest of the island of Mauritius. , it had a population of 868,846. Like the other four overseas departments, Réunion also holds the status of a region of France, and is an integral part of the French Republic. Réunion is an outermost region of the European Union and is part of the eurozone. Réunion and the fellow French overseas department of Mayotte are the only eurozone regions located in the Southern Hemisphere. As in the rest of France, the official language of Réunion is French. In addition, a majority of the region's population speaks Réunion Creole. Toponymy When France took possession of the island in the seventeenth century, it was named Bourbon, after the dynasty that then ruled France. To break ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pieter Bleeker
Pieter Bleeker (10 July 1819 – 24 January 1878) was a Dutch medical doctor, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He was famous for the ''Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néêrlandaises'', his monumental work on the fishes of East Asia published between 1862 and 1877. Life and work Bleeker was born on 10 July 1819 in Zaandam. He was employed as a medical officer in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army from 1842 to 1860, (in French). stationed in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). During that time, he did most of his ichthyology work, besides his duties in the army. He acquired many of his specimens from local fishermen, but he also built up an extended network of contacts who would send him specimens from various government outposts throughout the islands. During his time in Indonesia, he collected well over 12,000 specimens, many of which currently reside at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden. Bleeker corresponded with Auguste Duméril of Paris. His wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvin Seale
Alvin Seale (July 8, 1871 – July 28, 1958) was a naturalist known for his aquarium design and as an ichthyologist. Early life Alvin Seale was born on July 8, 1871, in Fairmount, Indiana, to a family of Quakers. In 1892, he attended Stanford University, and was tutored by David Starr Jordan. Education In 1896, the year that Seale would have graduated from Stanford in zoology, he was picked by Professor Jordan, along with fellow student Norman B. Scofield, to go to Point Barrow in Alaska. His mission was to look for salmon in the Mackenzie River. Travels Before returning to Stanford Seale collected sea birds along the Alaskan coast on behalf of the British Museum. He also went with his roommate to the Klondike to join the gold rush there. According to Seale, his companion “struck it rich.” Seale, however, was too busy exploring the native wildlife to waste his time searching for gold. In his unpublished diary Seale writes that he spent “an exciting year." Polynesian c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caesio Teres
''Caesio teres'', the yellow and blueback fusilier, beautiful fusilier, blue and gold fusilier or yellow-tail fusilier, is a species of marine, pelagic ray-finned fish belonging to the family Caesionidae. It occurs in the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans. Taxonomy ''Caesio teres'' was first formally described in 1906 by the American ichthyologist Alvin Seale with the type locality given as Shortland Island in the Solomon Islands. This species has been placed in the subgenus ''Flavicaesio''. The specific name ''teres'' means “cylindrical”, a reference to the cylindrical cross-section of the body compared to '' C. lunaris''. Description ''Caesio teres'' has a moderately deep, fusiform and laterally compressed body. The dorsal fin has 10 spines and 14-16, typically 15, soft rays while the anal fin contains 3 spines and 12-13 soft rays. The pectoral fins contain 20-22, typically 21 rays. This species attains a maximum total length of , although is more typical. The upper ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Benjamin Klunzinger
Carl Benjamin Klunzinger (18 November 1834, in Güglingen – 21 June 1914, in Stuttgart) was a German physician and zoologist. He studied medicine at the Universities of Tübingen and Würzburg, afterwards attending lectures on geology and zoology in Vienna and Prague. In 1862 he traveled to Cairo, where he spent eighteen months learning Arabic. Beginning in February 1864 he worked as a physician at Kosseir, a seaport on the Red Sea. Here he spent five years collecting a vast quantity of fish and other marine specimens. From 1869 he examined his Red Sea collection at the '' Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart'', traveling to Frankfurt and Berlin in order to conduct zoological comparison studies. At Stuttgart he also investigated Australian fish species procured by Ferdinand von Mueller (1825-1896), from whose collection Klunzinger described approximately fifty new species from Australia and New Zealand. In 1872 he was back in Kosseir collecting additional marine s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caesio Suevica
''Caesio suevica'' , the Suez fusilier, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a fusilier belonging to the family Caesionidae. It is endemic to the Red Sea. Taxonomy ''Caesio suevica'' was first formally described in 1884 by the German zoologist Carl Benjamin Klunzinger with the type locality given as El Qoseir on the Red Sea coast of Egypt. In his 1987 review of the genus ''Caesio'', Kent E. Carpenter placed this species in the subgenus ''Flavicaesio''. The specific name means “belonging to Suez”, the Gulf of Suez being just to the north of the type locality. Description ''Caesio suevica'' has a moderately slender, fusiform and laterally compressed body. The jaws, vomer and palatines have small conical teeth. The dorsal fin has 10 spines and 14-15 soft rays while the anal fin has 3 spines and 12 soft rays. This species can reach a maximum total length of . These fishes are light silver blue, with fine gray stripes. The back shows a yellow line starting at the base of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Donovan Connell
Allan may refer to: People * Allan (name), a given name and surname, including list of people and characters with this name * Allan (footballer, born 1984) (Allan Barreto da Silva), Brazilian football striker * Allan (footballer, born 1989) (Allan dos Santos Natividade), Brazilian football forward * Allan (footballer, born 1991) (Allan Marques Loureiro), Brazilian football midfielder * Allan (footballer, born 1994) (Allan Christian de Almeida), Brazilian football midfielder * Allan (footballer, born 1997) (Allan Rodrigues de Souza), Brazilian football midfielder Places * Allan, Queensland, Australia * Allan, Saskatchewan, Canada * Allan, the Allaine river's lower course, in France * Allan, Drôme, town in France * Allan, Iran (other), places in Iran Other uses * Allan, a Clan Grant split (or sept) * Ahlawat or Allan, an ethnic clan in India * ''Allan'', a 1966 film directed by Donald Shebib * "Allan" (song), a 1988 song recorded by the French artist Mylène Farmer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wouter Holleman
Wouter is a Dutch language, Dutch masculine Dutch given name, given name popular in the Netherlands and Belgium. It is the Dutch equivalent of the English name Walter (name), Walter and French name :fr:Gauthier, Gauthier, both of Germanic languages, Germanic origin, meaning "ruler of the army", "army of the forest" or "bright army". Wouter is sometimes shortened to Wout. The patronymic surname of Wouter is Wouters. People named Wouter Sports *Wouter olde Heuvel, Dutch speed skater *Wouter Claes, Belgian badminton player *Wouter Mol, Dutch professional road racing cyclist *Wouter Toledo, Dutch figure skater *Wout Poels, Wouter Poels, Dutch professional road bicycle racer *Wout van Aert, Belgian professional cyclist *Wouter Wippert, Dutch professional road racing cyclist *Wouter Jolie, Dutch field hockey player *Wouter Brouwer, Dutch fencer *Wouter van Pelt, Dutch field hockey player *Wouter Corstjens, Dutch-Belgian footballer *Wouter D'Haene, Belgian sprint canoer *Wouter Biebauw, Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caesio Xanthalytos
''Caesio'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, fusiliers belonging to the family Caesionidae. They are native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean, although one species has invaded the eastern Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal by Lessepsian migration. Taxonomy ''Caesio'' was created in 1801 by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède when he described ''Caesio caerilaurea''. In 1876 the Dutch ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker designated ''C. caerulaurea'' as the type species of the genus ''Caesio''. The genus name, ''Caesio'', means ”blue”. Species Currently, 9 species in this genus are recognized, organised into three subgenera according to some authorities: * Subgenus ''Caesio'' ** '' Caesio caerulaurea'' Lacépède, 1801 – blue and gold fusilier ** ''Caesio striata'' Rüppell, 1830 – striated fusilier ** ''Caesio varilineata'' K. E. Carpenter, 1987 – variable-lined fusilier ** ''Caesio xanthalytos'' Holleman, Connell & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caesio Varilineata
''Caesio varilineata'', the variable-lined fusilier or thin-lined fusilier, is a species of pelagic marine ray-finned fish, a fusilier belonging to the family Caesionidae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific region. Taxonomy ''Caesio varilineata'' was first formally described in 1987 by the American ichthyologist Kent E. Carpenter with the type locality given as the Persian Gulf. Carpenter placed it in the subgenus ''Caesio''. The specific name is a combination of ''vari-'', meaning “various” and ''lineata'' which means “lined”, a reference to the variable number of horizontal, golden stripes on the flanks. Description ''Caesio varilineata'' is a small to medium-sized fish which grows to about long. The eyes are large, the mouth is small and terminal and is protrusible, being able to be extended forward to swallow food. The body is fusiform or spindle-shaped. The caudal fin is deeply forked. The dorsal fin has 10 spines and 14-16 soft rays while the anal fin contains 3 spin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Rüppell
Wilhelm Peter Eduard Simon Rüppell (20 November 1794 – 10 December 1884) was a German Natural history, naturalist and List of explorers, explorer. Rüppell is occasionally transliterated to "Rueppell" for the English alphabet, due to german orthography. Biography Rüppell was born in Frankfurt am Main, the son of a prosperous banker, who was a partner in 'Rüppell und Harnier’s Bank'. He was originally destined to be a merchant, but after a visit to Sinai Peninsula, Sinai in 1817, where he met Henry Salt (Egyptologist), Henry Salt and the Swiss-German traveller Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Ludwig Burckhardt. He explored Giza and the Pyramids with Salt. In 1818, he developed an interest in natural history, and became elected member of the ''Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaf''. He attended lectures at the University of Pavia and University of Genoa in botany and zoology. Rüppell set off on his first expedition in 1821, accompanied by surgeon Michael Hey as his assistan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caesio Striata
''Caesio'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, fusiliers belonging to the family Caesionidae. They are native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean, although one species has invaded the eastern Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal by Lessepsian migration. Taxonomy ''Caesio'' was created in 1801 by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède when he described ''Caesio caerilaurea''. In 1876 the Dutch ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker designated ''C. caerulaurea'' as the type species of the genus ''Caesio''. The genus name, ''Caesio'', means ”blue”. Species Currently, 9 species in this genus are recognized, organised into three subgenera according to some authorities: * Subgenus ''Caesio'' ** '' Caesio caerulaurea'' Lacépède, 1801 – blue and gold fusilier ** ''Caesio striata'' Rüppell, 1830 – striated fusilier ** ''Caesio varilineata'' K. E. Carpenter, 1987 – variable-lined fusilier ** ''Caesio xanthalytos'' Holleman, Connell & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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