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Menticirrhus Littoralis
''Menticirrhus'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonng to the family Sciaenidae, the drums or croakers. They are commonly known as kingcroakers or kingfish. These fish are found in the Western Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Oceans. Taxonomy ''Menticirrhus'' was first proposed as a genus in 1861 by the American biologist Theodore Gill with ''Perca alburnus'', a species described by Linnaeus in 1763 from Charleston, as its only species and designated as its type species. This genus has been placed in the subfamily Sciaeninae by some workers, but the 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' does not recognise subfamilies within the Sciaenidae which it places in the order Acanthuriformes. Etymology ''Menticirrhus'' is a combination of ''mentum'', meaning "chin", and ''cirrhus'', which means barbel, an allusion to the single thick barbel on the chin. Species ''Menticirrhus'' contains the following species: *''Menticirrhus americanus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (Southern kingcroaker) *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miocene
The Miocene ( ) is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words (', "less") and (', "new") and means "less recent" because it has 18% fewer modern marine invertebrates than the Pliocene has. The Miocene is preceded by the Oligocene and is followed by the Pliocene. As Earth went from the Oligocene through the Miocene and into the Pliocene, the climate slowly cooled towards a series of ice ages. The Miocene boundaries are not marked by a single distinct global event but consist rather of regionally defined boundaries between the warmer Oligocene and the cooler Pliocene Epoch. During the Early Miocene, the Arabian Peninsula collided with Eurasia, severing the connection between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean, and allowing a faunal interchange to occur between Eurasia and Africa, including the dispersal of proboscideans into Eurasia. During the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acanthuriformes
Acanthuriformes is an order of ray-finned fishes, part of the Percomorpha clade. Some authorities place the fishes in the order within the Acanthuriformes in the suborders Acanthuroidea and Percoidea of the order Perciformes. Classification The Acanthuriformes as defined in the 5th edition of Fishes of the World is set out as follows: * Order Acanthuriformes ** Suborder Sciaenoidei Gill, 1872 *** Family Emmelichthyidae Poey, 1867 (Rovers) *** Family Sciaenidae Cuvier, 1829 (Drums) ** Suborder Acanthuroidei *** Family Luvaridae Gill, 1885 (Luvar) *** Family Zanclidae Bleeker, 1876 (Moorish angels) *** †Family Massalongiidae Tyler & Bannikov, 2005 *** Family Acanthuridae Bonaparte, 1835 (Surgeonfishes) **** Subfamily Nasinae Fowler & Bean, 1929 **** Subfamily Acanthurinae Bonaparte, 1835 ***** Tribe Prionurini J.L.B. Smith, 1966 ***** Tribe Zebrasomini Winterbottom, 1993 ***** Tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menticirrhus Saxatilis
''Menticirrhus saxatilis'', the northern kingfish or northern kingcroaker, is a species of marine fish in the family Sciaenidae (commonly known as the "drum" or "croaker" family). It lives in the shallow coastal waters of the western Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. Description The northern kingfish can grow to about , but a more usual adult length is .''Menticirrhus saxatilis'' (Bloch & Schneider, 1801): Northern kingfish FishBase. Retrieved 2012-03-07. It is a slender fish, being most deep bodied in the pectoral region. As in most bottom-feeding fish, its upper jaw projects further than the lower and the snout overhangs the mouth. There is a small |
Franz Steindachner
Franz Steindachner (11 November 1834 in Vienna – 10 December 1919 in Vienna) was an Austrian Zoology, zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He published over 200 papers on fishes and over 50 papers on reptiles and amphibians. Steindachner described hundreds of new species of fish and dozens of new amphibians and reptiles. At least seven species of reptile have been named after him. Work and career Being interested in natural history, Steindachner took up the study of fossil fishes on the recommendation of his friend Eduard Suess (1831–1914). In 1860 he was appointed to the position of director of the fish collection at the Naturhistorisches Museum, a position which had remained vacant since the death of Johann Jakob Heckel (1790–1857). (in German). Steindachner's reputation as an Ichthyology, ichthyologist grew, and in 1868 he was invited by Louis Agassiz (1807–1873) to accept a position at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. Steindachner took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menticirrhus Panamensis
''Menticirrhus'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonng to the family Sciaenidae, the drums or croakers. They are commonly known as kingcroakers or kingfish. These fish are found in the Western Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Oceans. Taxonomy ''Menticirrhus'' was first proposed as a genus in 1861 by the American biologist Theodore Gill with ''Perca alburnus'', a species described by Linnaeus in 1763 from Charleston, as its only species and designated as its type species. This genus has been placed in the subfamily Sciaeninae by some workers, but the 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' does not recognise subfamilies within the Sciaenidae which it places in the order Acanthuriformes. Etymology ''Menticirrhus'' is a combination of ''mentum'', meaning "chin", and ''cirrhus'', which means barbel, an allusion to the single thick barbel on the chin. Species ''Menticirrhus'' contains the following species: *''Menticirrhus americanus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (Southern kingcroaker) *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Frederick Hildebrand
Samuel Frederick Hildebrand (August 15, 1883 – March 16, 1949) was an American ichthyologist. Life and work Hildebrand was the son of German-born parents who immigrated to the United States in 1864. From 1908 to 1910 he worked as an assistant to Seth Eugene Meek at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. In 1910 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana State Normal School and became a research associate at the United States Bureau of Fisheries in Washington, D.C., where he remained until 1914. From 1910 to 1912 he undertook, with Meek, two collecting expeditions to Panama from which he published ''The Fishes of the Fresh Waters of Panama'' (1916) and ''The Marine Fishes of Panama'' (1923). From 1914 to 1918 he was head of the U.S. Fisheries Biological Station at Beaufort, North Carolina. In 1918 he studied mosquito control by small fish in Augusta, Georgia. From 1918 to 1919 he was director of the U.S. Fisheries Biological Station in Key West, Florida. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menticirrhus Paitensis
''Menticirrhus'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonng to the family Sciaenidae, the drums or croakers. They are commonly known as kingcroakers or kingfish. These fish are found in the Western Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Oceans. Taxonomy ''Menticirrhus'' was first proposed as a genus in 1861 by the American biologist Theodore Gill with ''Perca alburnus'', a species described by Linnaeus in 1763 from Charleston, as its only species and designated as its type species. This genus has been placed in the subfamily Sciaeninae by some workers, but the 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' does not recognise subfamilies within the Sciaenidae which it places in the order Acanthuriformes. Etymology ''Menticirrhus'' is a combination of ''mentum'', meaning "chin", and ''cirrhus'', which means barbel, an allusion to the single thick barbel on the chin. Species ''Menticirrhus'' contains the following species: *''Menticirrhus americanus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (Southern kingcroaker) *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Jenyns
Leonard Jenyns (25 May 1800 – 1 September 1893) was an English clergyman, author and naturalist. He was forced to take on the name Leonard Blomefield to receive an inheritance. He is chiefly remembered for his detailed phenology observations of the times of year at which events in natural history occurred. Personal life Jenyns was born in 1800 at No. 85 Pall Mall, London, the home of his maternal grandfather. He was the youngest son of George Leonard Jenyns of Bottisham Hall, Cambridgeshire, a magistrate, landowner and a prebendary of Ely Cathedral. His mother Mary (1763–1832) was the daughter of Dr. William Heberden (1710–1801). His father had inherited the Bottisham Hall property on the death of his distant cousin Soame Jenyns (1704–1787). By 1812, Jenyns began to study natural history encouraged by his great uncle. He went to Eton in 1813 where he read, and was inspired by Gilbert White's '' Natural History of Selborne''. In 1817 Jenyns was introduced to Sir Jos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menticirrhus Ophicephalus
''Menticirrhus'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonng to the family Sciaenidae, the drums or croakers. They are commonly known as kingcroakers or kingfish. These fish are found in the Western Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Oceans. Taxonomy ''Menticirrhus'' was first proposed as a genus in 1861 by the American biologist Theodore Gill with ''Perca alburnus'', a species described by Linnaeus in 1763 from Charleston, as its only species and designated as its type species. This genus has been placed in the subfamily Sciaeninae by some workers, but the 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' does not recognise subfamilies within the Sciaenidae which it places in the order Acanthuriformes. Etymology ''Menticirrhus'' is a combination of ''mentum'', meaning "chin", and ''cirrhus'', which means barbel, an allusion to the single thick barbel on the chin. Species ''Menticirrhus'' contains the following species: *''Menticirrhus americanus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (Southern kingcroaker) *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menticirrhus Nasus
''Menticirrhus'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonng to the family Sciaenidae, the drums or croakers. They are commonly known as kingcroakers or kingfish. These fish are found in the Western Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Oceans. Taxonomy ''Menticirrhus'' was first proposed as a genus in 1861 by the American biologist Theodore Gill with ''Perca alburnus'', a species described by Linnaeus in 1763 from Charleston, as its only species and designated as its type species. This genus has been placed in the subfamily Sciaeninae by some workers, but the 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' does not recognise subfamilies within the Sciaenidae which it places in the order Acanthuriformes. Etymology ''Menticirrhus'' is a combination of ''mentum'', meaning "chin", and ''cirrhus'', which means barbel, an allusion to the single thick barbel on the chin. Species ''Menticirrhus'' contains the following species: *''Menticirrhus americanus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (Southern kingcroaker) *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Edwards Holbrook
John Edwards Holbrook (December 31, 1796 – September 8, 1871) was an American zoologist, herpetologist, physician, and naturalist, born in Beaufort, South Carolina, the son of Silas Holbrook, a teacher, and Mary Edwards. Although Holbrook's memoir, written by his medical partner, and his tombstone both give the date 1794 for his birth, this is incorrect. Holbrook received his A.B. degree from Brown University in 1815, and his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1818. In 1827, he married Harriott Pinckney Rutledge (1802–1863), granddaughter of John Rutledge and a member of the Middleton-Rutledge-Pinckney family. He provided the first comprehensive illustrated account of North American amphibians and reptiles in the two editions of his ''North American Herpetology; or, A Description of the Reptiles Inhabiting the United States''. The first edition in four volumes (1836–1840) is very rare because Holbrook attempted to destroy all copies in a bonfire in his backyard over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menticirrhus Littoralis
''Menticirrhus'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonng to the family Sciaenidae, the drums or croakers. They are commonly known as kingcroakers or kingfish. These fish are found in the Western Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Oceans. Taxonomy ''Menticirrhus'' was first proposed as a genus in 1861 by the American biologist Theodore Gill with ''Perca alburnus'', a species described by Linnaeus in 1763 from Charleston, as its only species and designated as its type species. This genus has been placed in the subfamily Sciaeninae by some workers, but the 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' does not recognise subfamilies within the Sciaenidae which it places in the order Acanthuriformes. Etymology ''Menticirrhus'' is a combination of ''mentum'', meaning "chin", and ''cirrhus'', which means barbel, an allusion to the single thick barbel on the chin. Species ''Menticirrhus'' contains the following species: *''Menticirrhus americanus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (Southern kingcroaker) *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
