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Lucifuga Gibarensis
''Lucifuga'' is a genus of viviparous brotulas. Most of the species are native to caves and sinkholes in Cuba and the Bahamas; ''L. inopinata'' from deep water off the Galápagos Islands is the only exception. The four species rated by the IUCN are all considered vulnerable. The largest species in the genus reaches about in length. Species There are currently eight recognized species in this genus: * ''Lucifuga dentata'' Poey, 1858 (Toothed Cuban cusk-eel) *'' Lucifuga gibarensis'' * ''Lucifuga inopinata'' Cohen & McCosker, 1998 * ''Lucifuga lucayana ''Lucifuga'' is a genus of viviparous brotulas. Most of the species are native to caves and sinkholes in Cuba and the Bahamas; ''L. inopinata'' from deep water off the Galápagos Islands is the only exception. The four species rated by the IUCN ...'' Møller, Schwarzhans, Iliffe & J. G. Nielsen, 2006 (Lucaya cavebrotula) * '' Lucifuga simile'' Nalbant, 1981 * '' Lucifuga spelaeotes'' Cohen & C. R. Robins, 1970 (Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucifuga Lucayana
''Lucifuga'' is a genus of viviparous brotulas. Most of the species are native to caves and sinkholes in Cuba and the Bahamas; ''L. inopinata'' from deep water off the Galápagos Islands is the only exception. The four species rated by the IUCN are all considered vulnerable. The largest species in the genus reaches about in length. Species There are currently eight recognized species in this genus: * '' Lucifuga dentata'' Poey, 1858 (Toothed Cuban cusk-eel) *'' Lucifuga gibarensis'' * ''Lucifuga inopinata ''Lucifuga'' is a genus of viviparous brotulas. Most of the species are native to caves and sinkholes in Cuba and the Bahamas; ''L. inopinata'' from deep water off the Galápagos Islands is the only exception. The four species rated by the IUCN ...'' Cohen & McCosker, 1998 * '' Lucifuga lucayana'' Møller, Schwarzhans, Iliffe & J. G. Nielsen, 2006 (Lucaya cavebrotula) * '' Lucifuga simile'' Nalbant, 1981 * '' Lucifuga spelaeotes'' Cohen & C. R. Robins, 1970 ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bythitidae
The viviparous brotulas form a family, the Bythitidae, of ophidiiform fishes. They are known as viviparous brotulas as they generally viviparity, bear live young, although there are indications that some species (at least ''Didymothallus criniceps'') do not.Nielsen; Schwarzhans; and Hadiaty (2009). A blind, new species of Diancistrus (Teleostei, Bythitidae) from three caves on Muna Island, southeast of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Cybium 33(3): 241-245. They are generally infrequently seen, somewhat tadpole-like in overall shape and mostly about in length, but some species grow far larger and may surpass . Although many live near the coast in tropical or subtropical oceans, there are also species in deep water and cold oceans, for example ''Bythites''. ''Thermichthys hollisi'', which lives at depths of around , is associated with thermal vents. A few are fresh or brackish water cavefish: the Mexican blind brotula (''Typhliasina pearsei''), Galapagos cuskeel (''Ogilbia galapagosensis''), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro A
Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter. The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning "son of Peter" (compare with the English surname Peterson) is Pérez in Spanish, and Peres in Galician and Portuguese, Pires also in Portuguese, and Peiris in coastal area of Sri Lanka (where it originated from the Portuguese version), with all ultimately meaning "son of Pêro". The name Pedro is derived via the Latin word "petra", from the Greek word "η πέτρα" meaning "stone, rock". The name Peter itself is a translation of the Aramaic ''Kephas'' or '' Cephas'' meaning "stone". An alternate archaic spelling is ''Pêro''. Pedro may refer to: Notable people Monarchs, mononymously *Pedro I of Portugal *Pedro II of Portugal *Pedro III of Portugal *Pedro IV of Portugal, also Pedro I of Brazil *Pedro V of Portugal *Pedro II of Bra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucifuga Teresinarum
''Lucifuga teresinarum'' is a species of cavefish in the family Bythitidae. It is endemic to Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea .... References Bythitidae Endemic fauna of Cuba Freshwater fish of Cuba Cave fish Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Fish described in 1988 {{Bythitidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucifuga Subterranea
''Lucifuga subterranea'', or the Cuban cusk-eel, is a species of cavefish in the family Bythitidae. It is endemic to Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea .... Within the caves, sinkholes and crevices in which it occurs it is common, it feeds on cirolanid isopods. References Bythitidae Endemic fauna of Cuba Freshwater fish of Cuba Cave fish Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Fish described in 1858 {{Bythitidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Richard Robins
Charles Richard Robins (November 25, 1928 – November 12, 2020) was an American academic, environmentalist and ichthyologist. Early life and university Robins was born on November 25, 1928 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Helen Ayers Robins and Claude Revere Robins, a jewellery wholesaler (and eventual Mayor of Harrisburg), who was their third and final child. As a child Robins developed an interest in natural history, particularly birds. This early ornithological interest was apparently encouraged by George M. Sutton, the Pennsylvania State Ornithologist. Robins enjoyed the writings of the celebrated ornithologist Arthur Augustus Allen of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Robins wanted to study under Allen, so he went to Cornell in 1946, However, by that time the biology department had begun to move from concentrating on ornithology to ichthyology led by Edward C. Raney. Nevertheless, Robins finished his Ph.D. thesis in 1955, revising the eastern North American sculpins w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucifuga Spelaeotes
The New Providence cusk-eel (''Lucifuga spelaeotes''), also known as the Bahama cavefish, is a species of cavefish in the family Bythitidae. It is endemic to the Bahamas The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to ..., where it has been reported from a small number of marine blue holes, inland caverns and chasms. It is the only known cusk eel species that can occur in surface waters; all others exclusively live in the deep parts of the ocean, or in underwater caves. It was first described in 1970. References Bythitidae Cave fish Endemic fauna of the Bahamas Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Fish described in 1970 {{Bythitidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teodor T
Teodor is a masculine given name. In English, it is a cognate of Theodore. Notable people with the name include: *Teodor Muzaka III, Albanian nobleman who was born in 1393. * Teodor Andrault de Langeron (19th century), President of Warsaw * Teodor Andrzej Potocki (1664-1738), Polish nobleman * Teodor Anghelini (born 1954), retired Romanian football player and coach * Teodor Anioła (1925-1993), Polish footballer * Teodor Atanasov (born 1987), Bulgarian footballer * Teodor Axentowicz (1859-1938), Polish painter * Teodor Bujnicki (1907-1944), Polish poet * Teodor Calmășul (18th century), Romanian boyar * Teodor Filipović (1778-1807), Serbian lawyer * Teodor Frunzeti (born 1955), Romanian Land Forces general * Teodor Ilić Češljar (1746-1793), Serbian painter * Teodor Ilincăi (born 1983), Romanian opera tenor * Teodor Kazimierz Czartoryski (1704-1768), bishop of Poznań * Teodor Keko (1958-2002), Albanian writer * Teodor Koskenniemi (1887-1965), Finnish athlete * Teodor Kračun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucifuga Simile
''Lucifuga simile'' is a species of cavefish in the family Bythitidae. It is endemic to Cuba. It is a demersal species found in freshwater Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. Although the term specifically excludes seawater and brackish water, it does include ... and brackish water. It can reach a length of 8.8 centimeters. References *The FishBase 2010 Bythitidae Endemic fauna of Cuba Freshwater fish of Cuba Cave fish Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Fish described in 1981 Taxa named by Teodor T. Nalbant {{Bythitidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jørgen G
Jørgen is a Danish, Norwegian, and Faroese masculine given name cognate to George People with the given name Jørgen * Jørgen Aall (1771–1833), Norwegian ship-owner and politician * Jørgen Andersen (1886–1973), Norwegian gymnast * Jørgen Aukland (born 1975), Norwegian cross-country skier * Jørgen Beck (1914–1991), Danish film actor * Jørgen Bentzon (1897–1951), Danish composer * Jørgen Bjelke (1621–1696), Norwegian officer and nobleman * Jørgen Bjørnstad (1894–1942), Norwegian gymnast * Jørgen Bojsen-Møller (born 1954), Danish sailor and Olympic Champion * Jørgen Thygesen Brahe (1515–1565), Danish nobleman * Jørgen Brønlund (1877–1907), Greenlandic polar explorer, educator, and catechist * Jørgen Bru (1881–1974) was a Norwegian sport shooter * Jørgen Brunchorst (1862–1917), Norwegian natural scientist, politician and diplomat * Jørgen Buckhøj (1935–1994), Danish actor * Jørgen Wright Cappelen (1805–1878), Norwegian bookseller and publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas M
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Indiana * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel) 1969 novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |