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Homalopteroides Avii
''Homalopteroides'' is a genus of hillstream loaches native to Southeast Asia. Species There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus:Randall, Z.S. & Page, L.M. (2015): On the paraphyly of ''Homaloptera'' (Teleostei: Balitoridae) and description of a new genus of hillstream loaches from the Western Ghats of India. ''Zootaxa, 3926 (1): 57–86.'' * '' Homalopteroides avii'' Z. S. Randall & Page, 2014 Randall, Z.S. & Page, L.M. (2014): A New Species of ''Homalopteroides'' (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. ''Copeia, 2014 (1): 160–167.'' * '' Homalopteroides indochinensis'' Silas, 1953 * '' Homalopteroides modestus'' Vinciguerra, 1890 * '' Homalopteroides nebulosus'' Alfred, 1969 * '' Homalopteroides rupicola'' Prashad & Mukerji, 1929 * '' Homalopteroides smithi'' Hora, 1932 * ''Homalopteroides stephensoni'' Hora, 1932 * '' Homalopteroides tweediei'' Herre, 1940 * '' Homalopteroides wassinkii'' Bleeker, 1853 * '' Homalopteroides weberi'' Hora, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Weed Fowler
Henry Weed Fowler (March 23, 1878 – June 21, 1965) was an American zoologist born in Holmesburg, Pennsylvania. He studied at Stanford University under David Starr Jordan. He joined the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and worked as an assistant from 1903 to 1922, associate curator of vertebrates from 1922 to 1934, curator of fish and reptiles from 1934 to 1940 and curator of fish from 1940 to 1965. He published material on numerous topics including crustaceans, birds, reptiles and amphibians, but his most important work was on fish. In 1927 he co-founded the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and acted as treasurer until the end of 1927. In 1934 he went to Cuba, alongside Charles Cadwalader (president of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia), at the invitation of Ernest Hemingway to study billfishes, he stayed with Hemingway for six weeks and the three men developed a friendship which continued after this trip and Hemingway sent speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baini Prashad
Baini Prashad Order of the British Empire, OBE Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE (13 March 1894 – 18 January 1969) was an Indian zoologist who specialized chiefly in malacology and ichthyology. He served as the first Indian director of the Zoological Survey of India, succeeding R. B. Seymour Sewell, R.B.S. Sewell. He was also a scholar of Persian and took an interest in the history of zoology. Prashad was born at Kartarpur, India, Kirtarpur to ''Rai Sahib'' Devi Das, who was an administrative officer in the government in Punjab. His paternal grandfather ''Rai Sahib'' Gopal Das had been a commissioner. Prashad studied in Lahore and graduated from the Government College in Lahore in 1913 followed by a MSc in 1914. He worked on a Ph.D. under John Stephenson (zoologist), J. Stephenson, a specialist on annelids and professor of Zoology and was the first person to receive a non-honorary D.Sc. degree from Punjab University in 1918. His research was on the calciferous glands o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homalopteroides Yuwonoi
''Homalopteroides yuwonoi'' is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Homalopteroides ''Homalopteroides'' is a genus of hillstream loaches native to Southeast Asia. Species There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus:Randall, Z.S. & Page, L.M. (2015): On the paraphyly of ''Homaloptera'' (Teleostei: Balitoridae) and de ...''.Randall, Z.S. & Page, L.M. (2015): On the paraphyly of ''Homaloptera'' (Teleostei: Balitoridae) and description of a new genus of hillstream loaches from the Western Ghats of India. ''Zootaxa, 3926 (1): 57–86.'' References Balitoridae Freshwater fish of Indonesia Fish described in 1998 {{Balitoridae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homalopteroides Weberi
''Homalopteroides weberi'' is a species of the genus ''Homalopteroides'' in the family Balitoridae.Randall, Z.S. & Page, L.M. (2015): On the paraphyly of ''Homaloptera'' (Teleostei: Balitoridae) and description of a new genus of hillstream loaches from the Western Ghats of India. ''Zootaxa, 3926 (1): 57–86.'' It is found in west Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas .... References Balitoridae Fish described in 1932 {{Balitoridae-stub ... [...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] |
Homalopteroides Wassinkii
''Homalopteroides wassinkii'' is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Homalopteroides''. It can be found in Sumatra, Borneo, and Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's List .... References Balitoridae Fish described in 1853 {{Balitoridae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert William Herre
Albert William Christian Theodore Herre (September 16, 1868 – January 16, 1962) was an American ichthyologist and lichenologist. Herre was born in 1868 in Toledo, Ohio. He was an alumnus of Stanford University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in botany in 1903. Herre also received a master's degree and a Ph.D. from Stanford, both in ichthyology. He died in Santa Cruz, California in 1962. Work in the Philippines Albert W. Herre was perhaps best known for his Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic work in the Philippines, where he was the Chief of Fisheries of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Bureau of Science in Manila from 1919 to 1928. While in the Bureau of Science of the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands (which were administered by the United States at the time), Herre was responsible for discovering and describing many new species of fish. Legacy Herre is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of gecko, ''Lepidodactylus herrei'', wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homalopteroides Tweediei
''Homalopteroides tweediei'' is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Homalopteroides''. It can be found in the Mekong basin, Malay Peninsula, and Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas .... References Balitoridae Fish described in 1940 {{Balitoridae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homalopteroides Stephensoni
''Homalopteroides stephensoni'' is a species of the genus ''Homalopteroides'' in the family Balitoridae.Randall, Z.S. & Page, L.M. (2015): On the paraphyly of ''Homaloptera'' (Teleostei: Balitoridae) and description of a new genus of hillstream loaches from the Western Ghats of India. ''Zootaxa, 3926 (1): 57–86.'' It can be found in the Kapuas and Mahakam rivers in Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas .... References Balitoridae Fish described in 1932 {{Balitoridae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunder Lal Hora
Sunder Lal Hora (22 May 1896 – 8 December 1955) was an Indian ichthyologist known for his biogeographic theory on the affinities of Western Ghats and Indomalayan fish forms. Life Hora was born at Hafizabad in the Punjab (modern day Pakistan) on 2 May 1896. He schooled in Jullunder before college at Lahore. He met Thomas Nelson Annandale who visited his college in Lahore in 1919 and was invited to the Zoological Survey of India. In 1921 he became in-charge of ichthyology and herpetology and in 1947 became Superintendent of the Z.S.I. and then Director after Baini Prashad moved to become an advisor to the government. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1929. His proposers were James Hartley Ashworth, John Stephenson, Charles Henry O'Donoghue and James Ritchie. He died on 8 December 1955. Works The ''Satpura hypothesis'', a zoo-geographical hypothesis proposed by him that suggests that the central Indian Satpura Range of hills acted as a bridge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homalopteroides Smithi
''Homalopteroides smithi'' is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Homalopteroides''. It can be found in the Mekong and Chao Phraya basins and Malay Peninsula. The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist Hugh M. Smith (1865-1941), then at the Siam Department of Fisheries, in what is now Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo .... Other common names include the Green Gecko Loach or Shi's Flatfin Loach (a direct translation of the fish's chinese name '史氏平鰭鰍'). References Fish of Thailand Balitoridae Taxa named by Sunder Lal Hora Fish described in 1932 {{Balitoridae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dev Dev Mukerji
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