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Rineloricaria Melini
''Rineloricaria melini'' is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs in the Amazon River basin in Brazil. The species reaches 13 cm (5.1 inches) in Fish measurement, standard length and the maximum length can reaches 18–20 cm and is believed to be a facultative air-breather. ''Rineloricaria melini'' appears in the aquarium trade, where it is typically referred to as the dappled whiptail catfish. References Fish described in 1959 Suckermouth catfish of Brazil Fish of the Amazon basin Loricariini {{Loricariinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Schindler (zoologist)
Otto Schindler (1906–1959) was a German zoologist who specialised in ichthyology. In 1931 he joined the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (Zoologische Staatssammlung München) as an assistant curator of ichthyology, to work on the specimens collected by the III German Grand Chaco Expedition to East Paraguay. In 1937 he joined the IV expedition to Brazil which lasted 6 months. After the Second World War he was appointed Curator of Ichthyology and restored and ordered the collection of fish which had survived the war. It is known that he visited Stockholm in the 1950s, bringing some specimens from the museums there back to Munich. He also obtained specimens from Vienna as part of his efforts to rebuild the ZSM collection. He returned to South America in 1953-54, travelling to Bolivia with Walter Forster; during this expedition Schindler was appointed to negotiate the fishing quotas on Lake Titicaca with Peru by the Bolivian Ministry of Agriculture; the Peruvian negotiator was ano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |