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Heiko Bleher
Heiko Bleher (born 18 October 1944) is a German researcher, author, photographer, and filmmaker. He is best known in the scientific community for his contribution to the exploration of fresh and brackish water habitats worldwide. He has discovered numerous species of fish and aquatic plant, several of which carry his name or are named in honor of Bleher's family. Biography Heiko Bleher was born in Frankfurt on Main, Germany. He is the fourth and last child of Ludwig Bleher and Amanda Flora Hilda Bleher ''née'' Kiel. Bleher inherited his passion for freshwater fishes and aquatic plants from his mother. Amanda Flora Hilda Bleher was the daughter of Adolf Kiel, who is known as the "Father of Water Plants" and a pioneer of the modern aquarium. Adolf Kiel established the world's largest plant and ornamental fish farm in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1900. At the age of 4, Bleher's mother took him to Equatorial Guinea, in West Africa, on a research expedition. Two years later, he ...
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Frankfurt On Main
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian dialects, Hessian: , "Franks, Frank ford (crossing), ford on the Main (river), Main"), is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the List of cities in Germany by population, fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its namesake Main (river), Main River, it forms a continuous conurbation with the neighboring city of Offenbach am Main and Frankfurt Rhein-Main Regional Authority, its urban area has a population of over 2.3 million. The city is the heart of the larger Rhine-Main metropolitan region, which has a population of more than 5.6 million and is Germany's Metropolitan regions in Germany, second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region. Frankfurt's central business district, the Bankenviertel, lies about northwest of the geographic centre of the EU, geographic center of the EU at Gadheim, Lower Franconia. Like France and Franc ...
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Parasitology
Parasitology is the study of parasites, their hosts, and the relationship between them. As a biological discipline, the scope of parasitology is not determined by the organism or environment in question but by their way of life. This means it forms a synthesis of other disciplines, and draws on techniques from fields such as cell biology, bioinformatics, biochemistry, molecular biology, immunology, genetics, evolution and ecology. Fields The study of these diverse organisms means that the subject is often broken up into simpler, more focused units, which use common techniques, even if they are not studying the same organisms or diseases. Much research in parasitology falls somewhere between two or more of these definitions. In general, the study of prokaryotes falls under the field of bacteriology rather than parasitology. Medical The parasitologist F.E.G. Cox noted that "Humans are hosts to nearly 300 species of parasitic worms and over 70 species of protozoa, some derived f ...
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Moenkhausia Heikoi
''Moenkhausia'' is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Characidae native to tropical and subtropical South America. These are medium-sized tetras where the largest species only reach around . The diamond tetra and red-eye tetra The redeye tetra (''Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae''), is a species of tetra from the São Francisco, upper Paraná, Paraguay and Uruguay river basins in eastern and central South America. This freshwater fish is commonly kept in aquariums and br ..., which are commonly kept in aquaria, are members of this genus.SeriouslyFishMoenkhausia sanctaefilomenae.Retrieved 21 March 2017. Species There are currently 90 recognized species in this genus: References {{Taxonbar, from=Q140873 Characidae Fish of South America Freshwater fish genera Taxa named by Carl H. Eigenmann ...
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Phenacogrammus Bleheri
''Phenacogrammus bleheri'' is a species of fish in the African tetra family. It is known only from a small tributary of the Bari River in the Lua River system in the Ubangi River drainage, in the middle Congo River basin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in .... This species reaches a length of . Etymology The tetra is named in honor of explorer and ornamental fish wholesaler Heiko Bleher, who provided a lot of specimens for Géry's study, including the type specimen of this species. References Alestidae Freshwater fish of Africa Taxa named by Jacques Géry Fish described in 1995 {{Characiformes-stub ...
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Channa Bleheri
''Channa bleheri'' (the rainbow snakehead) is a species of dwarf snakehead that is endemic to the Brahmaputra River basin in the Indian states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.SeriouslyFishChanna bleheri Retrieved 11 February 2019. It is among the most colorful species of snakehead. Distribution and etymology In the wild, this species primarily inhabits waters within the Indian state of Assam, and it is known in Assamese as ''sengeli'' or ''chengeli''. Its binomial name honors the explorer Heiko Bleher. The specific name of this fish honours the explorer and exotic fish trader Heiko Bleher who assisted in the collection of the type and gave it to Vierke. Endemic to the Brahmaputra River basin, this fish has a type location at Dibrugarh, a city in the northeastern part of Assam.Courtenay, Walter and Williams, James. ''Snakeheads (Pisces, Channidae): A Biological Synopsis and Risk Assessment''p. 63(U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Jan 1, 2004). Its clo ...
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Manfred K
''Manfred: A dramatic poem'' is a closet drama written in 1816–1817 by Lord Byron. It contains supernatural elements, in keeping with the popularity of the ghost story in England at the time. It is a typical example of a Gothic fiction. Byron commenced this work in late 1816, a few months after the famous ghost-story sessions with Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley that provided the initial impetus for '' Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus ''. The supernatural references are made clear throughout the poem. ''Manfred'' was adapted musically by Robert Schumann in 1852, in a composition entitled '' Manfred: Dramatic Poem with Music in Three Parts'', and in 1885 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in his ''Manfred Symphony''. Friedrich Nietzsche was inspired by the poem's depiction of a super-human being to compose a piano score in 1872 based on it, "Manfred Meditation". Background Byron wrote this "metaphysical drama", as he called it, after his marriage to Annabella Mill ...
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Steatocranus Bleheri
''Steatocranus bleheri'' is species of cichlid only found in the Kafubu River system, which is part of the Luapula drainage in the upper Congo River basin, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa. This species can reach a length of TL. Etymology The cichlid is named in honor of explorer and ornamental-fish wholesaler Heiko Bleher Heiko Bleher (born 18 October 1944) is a German researcher, author, photographer, and filmmaker. He is best known in the scientific community for his contribution to the exploration of fresh and brackish water habitats worldwide. He has discover ... (b. 1944), who collected the type specimen. References bleheri Taxa named by Manfred K. Meyer Fish described in 1993 {{Cichlidae-stub ...
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Bleheratherina Pierucciae
''Bleheratherina pierucciae'' is a species of freshwater silverside endemic to New Caledonia. This species grows to in standard length. It is the only known species in its genus and subfamily. This species was described by Aarn and Walter Ivantsoff in 2009 with the type locality of the Tontouta River, New Caledonia,. The type Type may refer to: Science and technology Computing * Typing, producing text via a keyboard, typewriter, etc. * Data type, collection of values used for computations. * File type * TYPE (DOS command), a command to display contents of a file. * Ty ... was collected by Heiko Bleher and Paola Pierucci and Aarn and Ivantsoff named this species after both of them, the suffix ''-ae'' indicating Ms Pierucci's gender. References Atherinidae Fish described in 2009 {{Atheriniformes-stub ...
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Leporinus Bleheri
''Leporinus bleheri'' is a species of anostomid fish. It is found in the Iténez-Guaporé River basin in South America. Description ''Leporinus bleheri'' can reach a standard length of . Etymology The species epithet is named in honor of the explorer and ornamental-fish wholesaler Heiko Bleher (b. 1944), who collected the type specimen. References Taxa named by Jacques Géry Taxa described in 1999 Anostomidae {{Characiformes-stub ...
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Hemigrammus Bleheri
''Hemigrammus bleheri'' is a species of characin found in Amazon Basin in Brazil and Peru. One of three species called rummy-nose tetra, but is also called firehead tetra according to FishBase. Reaching a standard length of 2" (5 cm) it is a common species found in the aquarium trade although often potentially hybridised with the other collective rummy-nose tetra species ''Hemigrammus rhodostomus and Petitella georgiae;'' the false rummy-nose tetra''.'' Etymology Binomial'', bleheri'', honouring the species’ discoverer, Heiko Bleher. Distribution This species is found in the Rio Negro and Rio Meta The Meta River is a major left tributary of the Orinoco River in eastern Colombia and southern Venezuela, South America. The Meta originates in the Eastern Ranges of the Andes and flows through the Meta Department, Colombia as the confluence of ... basins. Diet Omnivorous and will accept just about anything offered. Species does have a small mouth so correspondingly ...
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Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It has a territorial extension of , and its population was estimated at 29 million in 2022. The capital and largest urban agglomeration is the city of Caracas. The continental territory is bordered on the north by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Colombia, Brazil on the south, Trinidad and Tobago to the north-east and on the east by Guyana. The Venezuelan government maintains a claim against Guyana to Guayana Esequiba. Venezuela is a federal presidential republic consisting of 23 states, the Capital District and federal dependencies covering Venezuela's offshore islands. Venezuela is among the most urbanized countries in Latin America; the vast majority of Venezuelans live in the cities of the n ...
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Pterophyllum Altum
''Pterophyllum altum'', also referred to as the altum angelfish, deep angelfish, or Orinoco angelfish, occurs strictly in the Orinoco River Basin and the Upper Rio Negro watershed in Southern Venezuela, Southeastern Colombia and extreme Northern Brazil. Description The species is the largest member in its genus and specimens may have a height (from tip of dorsal to tip of anal fin) of as much as . Its natural base color is silver but with three brownish/red vertical stripes and red striations into the fins. The species may show red spotting and a blueish green dorsal overcast when mature and when aroused exhibits a black operculum spot. Characteristic of this species is an acute incision or notch above the nares (supraorbital indention). All true Orinoco altum specimens show this trait. The true wildcaught Orinoco altum is very difficult to breed in captivity. Most altum angelfish are more frequently found in the well oxygenated, extremely soft waters of Upper and Middle Orinoco ...
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