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Callionymus Fluviatilis
The River dragonet (''Callionymus fluviatilis'') is a species of dragonet native to southern and southeastern Asia where it is found in the lower portions of rivers to the ocean. It is of minor importance to local commercial fisheries. This species grows to a length of fish measurement, TL. References Callionymus, F Fish described in 1876 {{Callionymidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Callionymus Boucheti
''Callionymus'' is a genus of dragonets found mostly in the Indian and Pacific oceans with a few species occurring in the Atlantic Ocean. Species There are currently 110 recognized species in this genus: * ''Callionymus aagilis'' R. Fricke, 1999 (Slow dragonet) * '' Callionymus acutirostris'' R. Fricke, 1981 (Pointed dragonet) * ''Callionymus afilum'' R. Fricke, 2000 (Northern Australian longtail dragonet) * '' Callionymus africanus'' ( Kotthaus, 1977) (African deepwater dragonet) * '' Callionymus alisae'' R. Fricke, 2016 (Alis dragonet) Fricke, R. (2016): ''Callionymus alisae'', a new species of dragonet from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean (Teleostei: Callionymidae). ''FishTaxa, 1 (1): 55-66.'' * '' Callionymus altipinnis'' R. Fricke, 1981 (High-fin deepwater dragonet) * '' Callionymus amboina'' Suwardji, 1965 (Ambon darter dragonet) * '' Callionymus annulatus'' M. C. W. Weber, 1913 (Big-head dragonet) * '' Callionymus australis'' R. Fricke, 1983 (Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Callionymus Bleekeri
''Callionymus bleekeri'', Bleeker's deepwater dragonet, is a species of dragonet endemic to the Pacific Ocean waters around Indonesia. The specific name honours the Dutch ichthyologist and surgeon 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 ... (1819-1878). References B Fish described in 1983 Taxa named by Ronald Fricke {{Callionymidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Callionymus Bifilum
''Callionymus bifilum'', the Northwestern Australian deepwater dragonet, is a species of dragonet native to the Indian Ocean off of western Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma .... References B Fish described in 2000 Taxa named by Ronald Fricke {{Callionymidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Callionymus Bentuviai
''Callionymus bentuviai'', Ben-Tuvia's deepwater dragonet, is a species of dragonet endemic to the Red Sea The Red Sea ( ar, البحر الأحمر - بحر القلزم, translit=Modern: al-Baḥr al-ʾAḥmar, Medieval: Baḥr al-Qulzum; or ; Coptic: ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϩⲁϩ ''Phiom Enhah'' or ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϣⲁⲣⲓ ''Phiom ǹšari''; T .... This species grows to a length of SL. References B Fish described in 1981 Taxa named by Ronald Fricke {{Callionymidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Otterbein Snyder
John Otterbein Snyder (August 14, 1867 – August 19, 1943) was an American ichthyologist and professor of zoology at Stanford University. History As a student he met David Starr Jordan who inspired him to enter zoology. He eventually became a zoology instructor at Stanford University and served there from 1899 until 1943. He went on several major collecting expeditions aboard the in the early 1900s and organized the U.S. National Museum's fish collection in 1925. The same year he also declined the directorship there so he could return to Stanford. He was a long-term member of the California Academy of Sciences and worked for the California Bureau of Fisheries. He wrote many articles and papers as well as describing several new species of sharks. San Francisco Bay In 1905, Snyder, then Assistant Professor of Zoology at Stanford, published ''Notes on the fishes of the streams flowing into San Francisco Bay'' in ''Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Comme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Callionymus Beniteguri
''Callionymus beniteguri'', the White-spotted dragonet, is a species of dragonet native to the water around Japan and the East China Sea. This species grows to a length of SL. This species is of importance to local commercial fisheries Commercial fishing is the activity of catching fish and other seafood for commercial profit, mostly from wild fisheries. It provides a large quantity of food to many countries around the world, but those who practice it as an industry must often .... References B Fish described in 1900 {{Callionymidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Richardson (naturalist)
Sir John Richardson Royal Society of London, FRS FRSE (5 November 1787 – 5 June 1865) was a Scotland, Scottish naval surgeon, natural history, naturalist and Arctic explorer. Life Richardson was born at Nith Place in Dumfries the son of Gabriel Richardson, Provost of Dumfries, and his wife, Anne Mundell. He was educated at Dumfries Grammar School. He was then apprenticed to his maternal uncle, Dr James Mundell, a surgeon in Dumfries. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He traveled with John Franklin in search of the Northwest Passage on the Coppermine Expedition of 1819–1822. Richardson wrote the sections on geology, botany and ichthyology for the official account of the expedition. Franklin and Richardson returned to Canada in 1825 and went overland by fur trade routes to the mouth of the Mackenzie River. Franklin was to go as far west as possible and Richardson was to go east to the mouth of the Coppermine River. These ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Callionymus Belcheri
''Callionymus belcheri'', Belcher's dragonet or the flathead dragonet, is a species of dragonet native to the Pacific Ocean waters off of Australia and Papua New Guinea where it occurs at depths of from . Description ''Callionymus belcheri'' has a yellowish to brown head and body with many small white spots on its back. The flanks are marked with white blotches which have dark brown margins. The underside is white. There are two dorsal fins, the first dorsal fin is brownish in colour, with a distal margin that is often blackish and which in males has white spots. The second dorsal fin is marked wither with light and dark streaks or with small white spots. The anal fin of males has a dark streak and in females is colourless or has dark spots on ots distal portion. The lower two-thirds of the caudal fin has brown spots. The preopercular spine has a concave ventral margin. There are a total of 4 spines in the dorsal fins and 9 soft rays with 8 soft rays in the anal fin. This spe ... [...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] |
Callionymus Bairdi
The lancer dragonet (''Callionymus bairdi''), Baird's dragonet, coral dragonet or St Helena dragonet, is a species of dragonet native to the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean where it occurs at depths of from . In the western Atlantic it occurs from Cape Hatteras southwards along the east coast of North America. including Bermuda and the Bahamas, into the Gulf of Mexico and throughout the Caribbean Sea. It has also been recorded from Ilha da Trindade off Brazil. In the eastern Atlantic it has been recorded from the Cape Verde Islands, Ascension Island, St. Helena, and Sao Tome e Principe in the Gulf of Guinea. This species grows to a length of TL. ''Callionymus bairdi'' is found over sandy bottoms but also over substrates of rocky-rubble. It occurs in shallow reefs as well as in beds of ''Thalassia testudinum''. It is a sexually dimorphic species. The juveniles occur shallower than 15m. The specific name honours the U.S. ornithologist and ichthyologist Spencer Fullerton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
