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''Lagocephalus'' is a genus of fish in the family Tetraodontidae (pufferfish) with a circumglobal distribution. Species There are currently 8 recognized species in this genus: * ''Lagocephalus guentheri'' A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1915 (Diamond-back puffer) * ''Lagocephalus inermis'' (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850) * ''Lagocephalus laevigatus'' (Linnaeus, 1766) (Smooth puffer) * ''Lagocephalus lagocephalus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (Oceanic puffer) * '' Lagocephalus lunaris'' (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Lunartail puffer) * ''Lagocephalus sceleratus'' (J. F. Gmelin, 1789) (Silver-cheeked puffer) * ''Lagocephalus spadiceus'' ( J. Richardson, 1845) (Half-smooth golden puffer) * ''Lagocephalus suezensis ''Lagocephalus suezensis'' is a species of pufferfish of the family Tetraodontidae. It is native to the western Indian Ocean and recorded in the Mediterranean Sea since 1977. It has since spread in the eastern Mediterranean Basin. It reaches 18 c ...'' E. Clark & Gohar, 1953 References ...
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Lagocephalus Spadiceus
''Lagocephalus spadiceus'', also known as the half-smooth golden pufferfish, is a species of fish in the family Tetraodontidae. It is a common fish in the Red Sea, as well as the Indian Ocean, but can be found also in the Mediterranean, where it arrived from its natural habitat by Lessepsian migration. Consumption of this fish can be deadly. Its internal organs, such as liver, gall bladder and sexual organs, contain tetrodotoxin Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a potent neurotoxin. Its name derives from Tetraodontiformes, an order that includes pufferfish, porcupinefish, ocean sunfish, and triggerfish; several of these species carry the toxin. Although tetrodotoxin was discovere ..., a powerful neurotoxin. References Lagocephalus Fish described in 1845 {{Tetraodontiformes-stub ...
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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 ...
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Marine Fish Genera
Marine is an adjective meaning of or pertaining to the sea or ocean. Marine or marines may refer to: Ocean * Maritime (other) * Marine art * Marine biology * Marine debris * Marine habitats * Marine life * Marine pollution Military * Marines, a naval-based infantry force ** United States Marine Corps ** Royal Marines of the UK ** Brazilian Marine Corps ** Spanish Marine Infantry ** Fusiliers marins (France) ** Indonesian Marine Corps ** Republic of China Marine Corps ** Republic of Korea Marine Corps ** Royal Thai Marine Corps *"Marine" also means "navy" in several languages: ** Austro-Hungarian Navy () ** Belgian Navy (, , ) ** Royal Canadian Navy () *** Provincial Marine (1796–1910), a predecessor to the Royal Canadian Navy ** Navy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo () ** Royal Danish Navy () ** Finnish Navy (, ) ** French Navy () ** Gabonese Navy () ** German Navy () ** Royal Moroccan Navy () ** Royal Netherlands Navy () ** Swedish Navy () Places * Marine ...
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Lagocephalus
''Lagocephalus'' is a genus of fish in the family Tetraodontidae (pufferfish) with a circumglobal distribution. Species There are currently 8 recognized species in this genus: * ''Lagocephalus guentheri'' A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1915 (Diamond-back puffer) * ''Lagocephalus inermis'' (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850) * ''Lagocephalus laevigatus'' (Linnaeus, 1766) (Smooth puffer) * ''Lagocephalus lagocephalus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (Oceanic puffer) * '' Lagocephalus lunaris'' (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Lunartail puffer) * ''Lagocephalus sceleratus'' (J. F. Gmelin, 1789) (Silver-cheeked puffer) * ''Lagocephalus spadiceus'' ( J. Richardson, 1845) (Half-smooth golden puffer) * ''Lagocephalus suezensis ''Lagocephalus suezensis'' is a species of pufferfish of the family Tetraodontidae. It is native to the western Indian Ocean and recorded in the Mediterranean Sea since 1977. It has since spread in the eastern Mediterranean Basin. It reaches 18 c ...'' E. Clark & Gohar, 1953 References ...
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Hamed Abdel Fattah Gohar
Hamed Abdel Fattah Goher (15 November 1907 – 17 June 1992) ( ar, حامد عبد الفتاح جوهر) was an Egyptian oceanographer, scientist and TV presenter. He appeared for over 18 years in his program ''The World of the Seas''. He was not married and dedicated his life to the sea. Gohar initiated the first full-scale research in ocean studies in Egypt and the Arab countries. In 1931 he began research on '' Xenia'', or soft corals of the Red Sea, finalized in 1939. In 1934 he published a study in the British journal, '' Nature'', on "The Partnership between Fish and Anemone". Gohar's eight-year research on the soft corals in Hurghada earned him a D.Sc. from Cambridge - considered the highest recognition open to unsupervised research. Early life and education Hamed Abdel Fattah Gohar was born in Cairo on November 15, 1907. He received his primary education at the Islamic Charitable Society School, and his secondary education at the Royal Secondary School,The spee ...
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Eugenie Clark
Eugenie Clark (May 4, 1922 – February 25, 2015), popularly known as The Shark Lady, was an American ichthyologist known for both her research on shark behavior and her study of fish in the order Tetraodontiformes. Clark was a pioneer in the field of scuba diving for research purposes. In addition to being regarded as an authority in marine biology, Clark was popularly recognized and used her fame to promote marine conservation. Early life and education Eugenie Clark was born and raised in New York City. Her father, Charles Clark, died when Eugenie was almost two years old, and her mother, Yumico Motomi, later married Japanese restaurant owner Masatomo Nobu. Clark attended elementary school in Woodside, Queens, and graduated from Bryant High School in Queens, New York. She was the only student of Japanese descent in her schools. From an early age, Clark was passionate about marine science, with many of her school reports covering topics in marine biology. An initial visit to t ...
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Lagocephalus Suezensis
''Lagocephalus suezensis'' is a species of pufferfish of the family Tetraodontidae. It is native to the western Indian Ocean and recorded in the Mediterranean Sea since 1977. It has since spread in the eastern Mediterranean Basin. It reaches 18 cm in total length and inhabits sandy and muddy bottoms down to 40 m. It is often confused with ''Lagocephalus sceleratus ''Lagocephalus sceleratus'' ( Gmelin, 1789), commonly known as the silver-cheeked toadfish, or Sennin-fugu ( ja, 仙人河豚), is an extremely poisonous marine bony fish in the family Tetraodontidae (puffer fishes). Habitat and distribution ...'' in Australia. References Tetraodontidae Lagocephalus Fish described in 1953 {{Tetraodontiformes-stub ...
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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 ...
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Johann Friedrich Gmelin
, fields = , workplaces = University of GöttingenUniversity of Tübingen , alma_mater = University of Tübingen , doctoral_advisor = Philipp Friedrich GmelinFerdinand Christoph Oetinger , academic_advisors = , doctoral_students = Georg Friedrich HildebrandtFriedrich StromeyerCarl Friedrich KielmeyerWilhelm August LampadiusVasily Severgin , notable_students = , known_for = Textbooks on chemistry, pharmaceutical science, mineralogy, and botany , author_abbrev_bot = J.F.Gmel. , author_abbrev_zoo = Gmelin , influences = Carl Linnaeus , influenced = , relatives = Leopold Gmelin (son) , awards = Johann Friedrich Gmelin (8 August 1748 – 1 November 1804) was a German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist. Education Johann Friedrich Gmelin was born as the eldest son of Philipp Friedrich Gmelin in 1748 in Tübingen. He studied medicine under his father at University of Tübingen ...
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Lagocephalus Sceleratus
''Lagocephalus sceleratus'' (Gmelin, 1789), commonly known as the silver-cheeked toadfish, or Sennin-fugu ( ja, 仙人河豚), is an extremely poisonous marine bony fish in the family Tetraodontidae (puffer fishes). Habitat and distribution The species is common in the tropical waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans. In the Mediterranean Sea, it is an invasive species likely introduced via Suez Canal. It has been caught off the coasts of Israel, the south of Turkey, in Cyprus, the south coasts of mainland Greece, Crete, and Rhodes. In 2013 it was reported off the waters off Lampedusa Island in the central Mediterranean, and in 2015 off Malta and also in Montenegro, southeastern Adriatic Sea. Currently the westernmost record is from the Strait of Gibraltar. Greek authorities sent out an alert about the fish. A few days before 9th of February 2022, a specimen was caught by Croatian fishermen near the island of Pašman in the Adriatic with the Croatian Institute of Oceanography ...
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Johann Gottlob Schneider
Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (18 January 1750 – 12 January 1822) was a German Empire, German classicist and natural history, naturalist. Biography Schneider was born at Collm in Saxony. In 1774, on the recommendation of Christian Gottlob Heine, he became secretary to the famous Strasbourg scholar Richard François Brunck, and in 1811 became professor of ancient languages and eloquence at Breslau (chief librarian, 1816) where he died in 1822. Works Of his numerous works the most important was his ''Kritisches griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch'' (1797–1798), the first independent work of the kind since Henri Estienne, Stephanus's ''Thesaurus'', and the basis of Franz Passow, F. Passow's and all succeeding Greek lexicons (including, therefore, the contemporary standard ''A Greek-English Lexicon''). A special improvement was the introduction of words and expressions connected with natural history and science. In 1801 he corrected and expanded re-published Marcus Elieser ...
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Marcus Elieser Bloch
Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723–1799) was a German physician and naturalist who is best known for his contribution to ichthyology through his multi-volume catalog of plates illustrating the fishes of the world. Brought up in a Hebrew-speaking Jewish family, he learned German and Latin and studied anatomy before settling in Berlin as a physician. He amassed a large natural history collection, particularly of fish specimens. He is generally considered one of the most important ichthyology, ichthyologists of the 18th century, and wrote many papers on natural history, comparative anatomy, and physiology. Life Bloch was born at Ansbach in 1723 where his father was a Torah writer and his mother owned a small shop. Educated at home in Hebrew literature he became a private tutor in Hamburg for a Jewish surgeon. Here he learned German, Latin and anatomy. He then studied medicine in Berlin and received a doctorate in 1762 from Frankfurt (Oder), Frankfort on the Oder with a treatise on skin dis ...
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