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Oligoplites Palometa
''Oligoplites'' is a genus of carangid leatherjackets native to warmer seas off the Americas, including the East Pacific, West Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Species The currently recognized species in this genus are: * ''Oligoplites altus'' ( Günther, 1868) (longjaw leatherjacket) * ''Oligoplites palometa'' (G. Cuvier, 1832) (Maracaibo leatherjacket) * ''Oligoplites refulgens'' C. H. Gilbert & Starks, 1904 (shortjaw leatherjacket) * ''Oligoplites saliens'' (Bloch, 1793) (Castin leatherjacket) * ''Oligoplites saurus The leatherjacket fish or leather jack, ''Oligoplites saurus'', is a species of jack in the family Carangidae. Leather jack may also refer to other members of the Carangidae, such as the pilot fish. The largest are about a foot long. Distribut ...'' (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (leatherjacket) References Scomberoidinae Marine fish genera Taxa named by Theodore Gill {{Ray-finned fish-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodore Nicholas Gill
Theodore Nicholas Gill (March 21, 1837 – September 25, 1914) was an American ichthyologist, mammalogist, malacologist and librarian. Career Born and educated in New York City under private tutors, Gill early showed interest in natural history. He was associated with J. Carson Brevoort in the arrangement of the latter's entomological and ichthyological collections before going to Washington D.C. in 1863 to work at the Smithsonian Institution. He catalogued mammals, fishes and mollusks most particularly although maintaining proficiency in other orders of animals. He was librarian at the Smithsonian and also senior assistant to the Library of Congress. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1867. Gill was professor of zoology at George Washington University. He was also a member of the Megatherium Club at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Fellow members frequently mocked him for his vanity. He was president of the American Association f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oligoplites Refulgens
The shortjaw leatherjacket (''Oligoplites refulgens''), also known as the slender leatherjacket, is a marine ray-finned fish from the family Carangidae which is native to the eastern Pacific, where it is found from Mexico to Ecuador. It is a pelagic species found close to shore, to depths of , which can withstand water of low salinity and which can enter estuaries temporarily. This species was formally described in 1904 by Charles Henry Gilbert & Edwin Chapin Starks from a type locality of Panama City Panama City ( es, Ciudad de Panamá, links=no; ), also known as Panama (or Panamá in Spanish), is the capital and largest city of Panama. It has an urban population of 880,691, with over 1.5 million in its metropolitan area. The city is locat ... market. References Shortjaw Fish of the Pacific Ocean Fish described in 1904 IUCN Red List least concern species {{Ray-finned fish-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scomberoidinae
Scomberoidinae is a subfamily of ray-finned fish from the family Carangidae which consists of three genera and 10 species. The species in this subfamily have been given the common names leatherjacket and queenfish. Genera The following genera are classified within the Scomberoidinae: * Genus ''Oligoplites'' Gill, 1863 * Genus ''Parona Parona is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pavia in the Italy, Italian region Lombardy, located about 40 km southwest of Milan and about 35 km northwest of Pavia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,793 and an ...'' C. Berg, 1895 * Genus '' Scomberoides'' Lacépède, 1801 References {{Taxonbar, from=Q65245167 Carangidae Fish subfamilies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oligoplites
''Oligoplites'' is a genus of carangid leatherjackets native to warmer seas off the Americas, including the East Pacific, West Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Species The currently recognized species in this genus are: * ''Oligoplites altus'' ( Günther, 1868) (longjaw leatherjacket) * ''Oligoplites palometa'' (G. Cuvier, 1832) (Maracaibo leatherjacket) * ''Oligoplites refulgens'' C. H. Gilbert & Starks, 1904 (shortjaw leatherjacket) * ''Oligoplites saliens'' (Bloch, 1793) (Castin leatherjacket) * ''Oligoplites saurus The leatherjacket fish or leather jack, ''Oligoplites saurus'', is a species of jack in the family Carangidae. Leather jack may also refer to other members of the Carangidae, such as the pilot fish. The largest are about a foot long. Distribut ...'' (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (leatherjacket) References Scomberoidinae Marine fish genera Taxa named by Theodore Gill {{Ray-finned fish-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oligoplites Saliens
''Oligoplites'' is a genus of carangid leatherjackets native to warmer seas off the Americas, including the East Pacific, West Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Species The currently recognized species in this genus are: * ''Oligoplites altus'' ( Günther, 1868) (longjaw leatherjacket) * ''Oligoplites palometa'' (G. Cuvier, 1832) (Maracaibo leatherjacket) * ''Oligoplites refulgens'' C. H. Gilbert & Starks, 1904 (shortjaw leatherjacket) * ''Oligoplites saliens'' (Bloch, 1793) (Castin leatherjacket) * ''Oligoplites saurus The leatherjacket fish or leather jack, ''Oligoplites saurus'', is a species of jack in the family Carangidae. Leather jack may also refer to other members of the Carangidae, such as the pilot fish. The largest are about a foot long. Distribut ...'' (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (leatherjacket) References Scomberoidinae Marine fish genera Taxa named by Theodore Gill {{Ray-finned fish-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Chapin Starks
Edwin Chapin Starks (born in Baraboo, Wisconsin on January 25, 1867; died December 29, 1932) was an ichthyologist most associated with Stanford University. He was known as an authority on the osteology of fish. He also did studies of fish of the Puget Sound Puget Sound ( ) is a sound of the Pacific Northwest, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and part of the Salish Sea. It is located along the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington. It is a complex estuarine system of interconnected ma .... His wife and daughter were also both involved in either science or natural history. See also * :Taxa named by Edwin Chapin Starks References {{DEFAULTSORT:Starks, Edwin Chapin American ichthyologists Stanford University Department of Biology faculty Stanford University alumni 1867 births 1932 deaths People from Baraboo, Wisconsin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Henry Gilbert
Charles Henry Gilbert (December 5, 1859 in Rockford, Illinois – April 20, 1928 in Palo Alto, California) was a pioneer ichthyologist and Fisheries science, fishery biologist of particular significance to natural history of the western United States. He collected and studied fishes from Central America north to Alaska and described many new species. Later he became an expert on Pacific salmon and was a noted conservation movement, conservationist of the Pacific Northwest. He is considered by many as the intellectual founder of American fisheries biology. He was one of the 22 "pioneer professors" (founding faculty) of Stanford University. Early life and education Born in Rockford, Illinois, Gilbert spent his early years in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he came under the influence of his high school teacher, David Starr Jordan (1851‒1931). When Jordan became Professor of Natural History at Butler University in Indianapolis, Gilbert followed and received his B.A. degree in 187 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Cuvier
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (; 23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French natural history, naturalist and zoology, zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils. Cuvier's work is considered the foundation of vertebrate paleontology, and he expanded Linnaean taxonomy by grouping classes into phylum, phyla and incorporating both fossils and living species into the classification. Cuvier is also known for establishing extinction as a fact—at the time, extinction was considered by many of Cuvier's contemporaries to be merely controversial speculation. In his ''Essay on the Theory of the Earth'' (1813) Cuvier proposed that now-extinct species had been wiped out by periodic catastrophi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oligoplites Saurus
The leatherjacket fish or leather jack, ''Oligoplites saurus'', is a species of jack in the family Carangidae. Leather jack may also refer to other members of the Carangidae, such as the pilot fish. The largest are about a foot long. Distribution There are two subspecies of ''Oligoplites saurus''. The nominate subspecies ''O.s. saurus'' is distributed in the western Atlantic Ocean from Chatham, Massachusetts south along the U.S. coast, throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, and along the South American coast to Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The other subspecies ''O. s. inornatus'' is found in the eastern Pacific Ocean from southern Baja California, much of the Gulf of California to Ecuador, including the Galapagos and Malpelo Islands. Feeding It voraciously devours small fish and shrimp, often in company with larger predatory species. Leatherjackets feed on small fish including the silver perch. As food Traditionally, the leather jacket has not been eaten, but recently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oligoplites Palometa
''Oligoplites'' is a genus of carangid leatherjackets native to warmer seas off the Americas, including the East Pacific, West Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Species The currently recognized species in this genus are: * ''Oligoplites altus'' ( Günther, 1868) (longjaw leatherjacket) * ''Oligoplites palometa'' (G. Cuvier, 1832) (Maracaibo leatherjacket) * ''Oligoplites refulgens'' C. H. Gilbert & Starks, 1904 (shortjaw leatherjacket) * ''Oligoplites saliens'' (Bloch, 1793) (Castin leatherjacket) * ''Oligoplites saurus The leatherjacket fish or leather jack, ''Oligoplites saurus'', is a species of jack in the family Carangidae. Leather jack may also refer to other members of the Carangidae, such as the pilot fish. The largest are about a foot long. Distribut ...'' (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (leatherjacket) References Scomberoidinae Marine fish genera Taxa named by Theodore Gill {{Ray-finned fish-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
