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Johann Jakob Kaup
Johann Jakob von Kaup (10 April 1803 – 4 July 1873) was a German naturalist. A proponent of natural philosophy, he believed in an innate mathematical order in nature and he attempted biological classifications based on the Quinarian system. Kaup is also known for having coined popular prehistoric taxa like '' Pterosauria'', '' Machairodus'', ''Deinotherium'', ''Dorcatherium'', and ''Chalicotherium''. Biography He was born at Darmstadt. After studying at Göttingen and Heidelberg he spent two years at Leiden, where his attention was specially devoted to the amphibians and fishes. He then returned to Darmstadt as an assistant in the grand ducal museum, of which in 1840 he became inspector. In 1829 he published ''Skizze zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der europäischen Thierwelt'', in which he regarded the animal world as developed from lower to higher forms, from the amphibians through the birds to the beasts of prey; but subsequently he repudiated this work as a youthful indiscretion ...
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Kaup Johann Jakob 1803-1873
Kaup may refer to: *Kapu, Karnataka (AKA Kaup), a village in Udupi district, Karnataka, India *Kaup (emporium), an early medieval trade settlement in the Curonian Lagoon *Heinrich Kaup (1912–1999), highly decorated Feldwebel in the Wehrmacht during World War II *Johann Jakob Kaup (1803–1873), German naturalist *Kaup–Kupershmidt equation, the nonlinear fifth-order partial differential equation {{disambig, geo, surname ...
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Paleontology
Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their paleoecology). Paleontological observations have been documented as far back as the 5th century BC. The science became established in the 18th century as a result of Georges Cuvier's work on comparative anatomy, and developed rapidly in the 19th century. The term itself originates from Greek (, "old, ancient"), (, ( gen. ), "being, creature"), and (, "speech, thought, study"). Paleontology lies on the border between biology and geology, but differs from archaeology in that it excludes the study of anatomically modern humans. It now uses techniques drawn from a wide range of sciences, including biochemistry, mathematics, and engineering. ...
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Demersal Fish
Demersal fish, also known as groundfish, live and feed on or near the bottom of seas or lakes (the demersal zone).Walrond Carl . "Coastal fish - Fish of the open sea floor"Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Updated 2 March 2009 They occupy the sea floors and lake beds, which usually consist of mud, sand, gravel or rocks. In coastal waters they are found on or near the continental shelf, and in deep waters they are found on or near the continental slope or along the continental rise. They are not generally found in the deepest waters, such as abyssal depths or on the abyssal plain, but they can be found around seamounts and islands. The word ''demersal'' comes from the Latin ''demergere'', which means ''to sink''. Demersal fish are bottom feeders. They can be contrasted with pelagic fish which live and feed away from the bottom in the open water column. Demersal fish fillets contain little fish oil (one to four percent), whereas pelagic fish can contain up to 30 percent ...
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Felipe Poey Y Aloy
Felipe Poey (May 26, 1799 – January 28, 1891) was a Cuban zoologist. Biography Poey was born in Havana, the son of French and Spanish parents. He spent several years (1804 to 1807) of his life in Pau then studied law in Madrid. He became a lawyer in Spain but was forced to leave due to his liberal ideas, returning to Cuba in 1823. He began to concentrate on the study of the natural science and traveled to France in 1825 with his wife. He began writing on the butterflies of Cuba and acquiring knowledge on fish, later supplying Georges Cuvier and Valenciennes with fish specimens from Cuba. He took part in the foundation, in 1832, of the Société Entomologique de France. Poey returned to Cuba in 1833 where he founded the Museum of Natural History in 1839. In 1842 he became the first professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Havana The University of Havana or (UH, ''Universidad de La Habana'') is a university located in the Vedado district of Hava ...
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Physiculus Kaupi
''Physiculus'' is a genus of morid cods. Species The 42 currently recognized species in this genus are: * ''Physiculus andriashevi'' Shcherbachev, 1993 * '' Physiculus argyropastus'' Alcock, 1894 * '' Physiculus beckeri'' Shcherbachev, 1993 * ''Physiculus bertelseni'' Shcherbachev, 1993 * ''Physiculus capensis'' Gilchrist, 1922 * ''Physiculus chigodarana'' Paulin, 1989 * ''Physiculus cirm'' Carvalho-Filho & Pires, 2019 * ''Physiculus coheni'' Paulin, 1989 * ''Physiculus cyanostrophus'' M. E. Anderson & Tweddle, 2002 * ''Physiculus cynodon'' Sazonov, 1986 * ''Physiculus dalwigki'' Kaup, 1858 (black codling) * ''Physiculus fedorovi'' Shcherbachev, 1993 * ''Physiculus fulvus'' T. H. Bean, 1884 (hakeling) * ''Physiculus grinnelli'' D. S. Jordan & E. K. Jordan, 1922 * ''Physiculus helenaensis'' Paulin, 1989 (skulpin) * ''Physiculus hexacytus'' Parin, 1984 * ''Physiculus huloti'' Poll, 1953 * '' Physiculus japonicus'' Hilgendorf, 1879 (Japanese codling) * '' Physiculu ...
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Chlopsidae
The Chlopsidae, or false morays, are a family of eels found in coral reefs worldwide. As their name suggests, they somewhat resemble moray eels in appearance. However, they are smaller than true morays, ranging from in length. Genera The family contains these genera: Family Chlopsidae * Genus '' Boehlkenchelys'' * Genus '' Catesbya'' * Genus ''Chilorhinus'' * Genus '' Chlopsis'' * Genus ''Kaupichthys'' * Genus '' Powellichthys'' * Genus '' Robinsia'' * Genus ''Xenoconger ''Xenoconger'' is a genus of eels in the family Chlopsidae (false morays). It contains the single species ''Xenoconger fryeri'', or Fryer's false moray. Marine fish families< ...
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Eels
Eels are ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes (), which consists of eight suborders, 19 families, 111 genera, and about 800 species. Eels undergo considerable development from the early larval stage to the eventual adult stage and are usually predators. The term "eel" is also used for some other eel-shaped fish, such as electric eels (genus ''Electrophorus''), spiny eels (family Mastacembelidae), swamp eels (family Synbranchidae), and deep-sea spiny eels (family Notacanthidae). However, these other clades evolved their eel-like shapes independently from the true eels. Eels live both in salt and fresh water, and some species are catadromous. Description Eels are elongated fish, ranging in length from in the one-jawed eel (''Monognathus ahlstromi'') to in the slender giant moray. Adults range in weight from to well over . They possess no pelvic fins, and many species also lack pectoral fins. The dorsal and anal fins are fused with the caudal fin, formin ...
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Leonard Peter Schultz
Leonard Peter Schultz (1901–1986) was an American ichthyologist. Biography Schultz was born in 1901, at Albion, Michigan. He received education on ichthyology at Albion College, in which he got his bachelor's degree, in 1924. In 1926, he got his master's degree from the University of Michigan, and then in 1932 from the University of Washington. From 1928 till 1936, he taught at the College of Fisheries at University of Washington. He was appointed as an assistant curator at the Division of Fishes of the United States National Museum. During the same year he joined Smithsonian Institution, where he remained till retirement in 1968. In 1938 he became a curator of the Division. While in retirement, he continued to work as a Research Associate of the Division of Fishes. He was one of the scientists that was sent to work for the U.S. Navy, on Operation Crossroads, that was conducted at the Bikini Atoll in 1946. Aside from testing an atomic bomb during the operation, he also col ...
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Kaupichthys
''Kaupichthys'' is a genus of eels of the family Chlopsidae. Species The currently recognized species in this genus are: * ''Kaupichthys atronasus'' L. P. Schultz, 1953 (black-nostril false moray) * ''Kaupichthys brachychirus'' L. P. Schultz, 1953 (shortfin false moray) * ''Kaupichthys diodontus'' L. P. Schultz, 1943 (common false moray) * ''Kaupichthys hyoproroides'' ( Strömman, 1896) (false moray) * ''Kaupichthys japonicus'' Matsubara & Asano, 1960 * ''Kaupichthys nuchalis The collared eelCommon n ...
'' J. E. Böhlke, 1967 (collared eel)


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* by Johann Jakob Kaup Johann Jakob von Kaup (10 April 1803 – 4 July 1873) was a German naturalist. A proponent of natural philosophy, he believed in an innate mathematical order in nature and he attempted biological classifications based on the Quinarian system. Kaup ... (1803-1873) — a , , and . {{DEFAULTSORT:Kaup, Johann Jakob Animal taxa by author German ichthyologists German taxonomists 19th-century German zoologists Taxa by author ...
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Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (HLMD) is a large multidisciplinary museum in Darmstadt, Germany. The museum exhibits Rembrandt, Beuys, a primeval horse and a mastodon under the slogan "The whole world under one roof". As one of the oldest public museums in Germany, it has 80,000 visitors every year and a collection size of 1.35 million objects. Since 2019, has been director of the museum. It is one of the three Hessian State museums, in addition to the museums in Kassel and Wiesbaden. Similar institutions in Europe are the Universalmuseum Joanneum in Graz and the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. History Art and natural history collections of the Landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt have been established since the 17th century. The museum was founded on 12 July 1820 with the donation of the collections of Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse. Initially located in the Baroque part of the Residential Palace Darmstadt, the museum moved in 1906 to a nearby new building. In 1937, 82 w ...
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Charles Willson Peale
Charles Willson Peale (April 15, 1741 – February 22, 1827) was an American Painting, painter, soldier, scientist, inventor, politician and naturalist. He is best remembered for his portrait paintings of leading figures of the American Revolution, and for establishing one of the first museums in the United States. Early life Peale was born in 1741 between modern-day Queenstown, Maryland, Queenstown and Centreville, Maryland, Centreville, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, the son of Charles Peale (1709–1750) and his wife Margaret Triggs (1709–1791). He had a younger brother, James Peale (1749–1831). He was the brother-in-law of Nathaniel Ramsey, a delegate to the Congress of the Confederation. Four years after his father’s death in 1750, Charles became an apprentice to a saddle maker by the name of Nathan Waters when he was thirteen years old. Upon reaching maturity, he opened his own saddle shop and joined the Sons of Liberty in 1764 in opposition to the “court” pa ...
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