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Congriscus '' ( Günther, 1877)
''Congriscus'' is a genus of eels in the family Congridae. Species There are currently three recognized species in this genus: * ''Congriscus maldivensis'' (Norman, 1939) * ''Congriscus marquesaensis'' Karmovskaya, 2004 * ''Congriscus megastomus ''Congriscus megastomus'' is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).'' ... References {{Taxonbar, from=Q1887601 Congridae ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congriscus Megastomus
''Congriscus megastomus'' is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).''Congriscus megastomus'' at www.fishbase.org. It was described by in 1877, originally under the genus '' Congromuraena''.Günther, A., 1877 (1 Nov.) ''Preliminary notes on new fishes collected in Japan during the expedition of H. M. S. ''Challenger.''.'' Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 4) v. 20 (no. 119) (art. 56): 433-446. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congriscus Maldivensis
''Congriscus maldivensis'' is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels). It was described by John Roxborough Norman in 1939, originally under the genus ''Conger''.Norman, J. R., 1939 (25 Nov.) ''Fishes. The John Murray Expedition 1933-34.'' Scientific Reports, John Murray Expedition v. 7 (no. 1): 1-116. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from the Indo-Western Pacific, including Australia, Fiji, Madagascar, Maldives (from which its species epithet is derived), New Caledonia, the Philippines, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna. It dwells at a depth range of 354–820 metres. It can reach a maximum standard length Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies. These data are used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fisheries biology. Overall length * Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish m ... of 35.2 centimetres. References Congridae Fish of the Indian Ocean Fish of the Pacific O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congriscus Marquesaensis
''Congriscus marquesaensis'' is an eel in the family Congridae (conger/garden eels).''Congriscus marquesaensis'' at www.fishbase.org. It was described by in 2004.Karmovskaya, E. S., 2004 ''Benthopelagic bathyal conger eels of families Congridae and Nettastomatidae from the western tropical Pacific, with descriptions of ten new species.'' Journal of Ichthyology v. 44 (Suppl. 1): S1-S32. It is a |
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] |
Carl Leavitt Hubbs
Carl Leavitt Hubbs (October 19, 1894 – June 30, 1979) was an American ichthyologist. Biography Youth He was born in Williams, Arizona. He was the son of Charles Leavitt and Elizabeth (née Goss) Hubbs. His father had a wide variety of jobs (farmer, iron mine owner, newspaper owner). The family moved several times before settling in San Diego where he got his first taste of natural history. After his parents divorced in 1907, he lived with his mother, who opened a private school in Redondo Beach, California. His maternal grandmother Jane Goble Goss, one of the first female doctors, showed Hubbs how to harvest shellfish and other sea creatures. One of his teachers, impressed by Hubbs's abilities in science, recommended that he study chemistry at the University of Berkeley. The family moved once more to Los Angeles. In Los Angeles, George Bliss Culver, one of the many volunteers of David Starr Jordan, encouraged Hubbs to abandon his study of birds and instead to study fish, par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Roxborough Norman
John Roxborough Norman (1898, Wandsworth, London – 26 May 1944, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire) was an English ichthyologist. He started as a clerk in a bank. His lifetime affliction with rheumatic fever began during his military service during the First World War. He entered the British Museum in 1921 where he worked for Charles Tate Regan (1878-1943). From 1939 to 1944, he was in charge of the Natural History Museum at Tring as the Curator of Zoology. Norman was the author of, among others, ''A History of Fishes'' (1931) and ''A Draft Synopsis of the Orders, Families and Genera of Recent Fishes'' (1957). He was considered closer to Albert Günther (1830-1914) than to Regan. See also *:Taxa named by John Roxborough Norman References Aldemaro Romero Home Page (Archived on 14 September 2006) *Translated from the French Wikipedia article 1898 births 1944 deaths English ichthyologists People from Wandsworth 20th-century British zoologists British military personnel of World War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Stanislavovna Karmovskaya
Emma may refer to: * Emma (given name) Film * Emma (1932 film), ''Emma'' (1932 film), a comedy-drama film by Clarence Brown * Emma (1996 theatrical film), ''Emma'' (1996 theatrical film), a film starring Gwyneth Paltrow * Emma (1996 TV film), ''Emma'' (1996 TV film), a British television film starring Kate Beckinsale * Emma (2020 film), ''Emma'' (2020 film), a British drama film starring Anya Taylor-Joy Literature * Emma (novel), ''Emma'' (novel), an 1815 novel by Jane Austen * ''Emma Brown'', a fragment of a novel by Charlotte Brontë, completed by Clare Boylan in 2003 * ''Emma'', a 1955 novel by F. W. Kenyon * ''Emma: A Modern Retelling'', a 2015 novel by Alexander McCall Smith * Emma (manga), ''Emma'' (manga), a 2002 manga by Kaoru Mori and the adapted Japanese animated series * EMMA (magazine), ''EMMA'' (magazine), a German feminist journal, published by Alice Schwarzer Music Artists * E.M.M.A., a 2001–2005 Swedish girl group * Emma (Welsh singer) (born 1974) * Emma Bunton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Günther
Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther FRS, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3 October 1830 – 1 February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Günther is ranked the second-most productive reptile taxonomist (after George Albert Boulenger) with more than 340 reptile species described. Early life and career Günther was born in Esslingen in Swabia (Württemberg). His father was a ''Stiftungs-Commissar'' in Esslingen and his mother was Eleonora Nagel. He initially schooled at the Stuttgart Gymnasium. His family wished him to train for the ministry of the Lutheran Church for which he moved to the University of Tübingen. A brother shifted from theology to medicine, and he, too, turned to science and medicine at Tübingen in 1852. His first work was "''Ueber den Puppenzustand eines Distoma''". He graduated in medicine with an M.D. from Tübingen in 1858, the same year in which he published a handbook of zoology for students of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
