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Fluffy Sculpin
The fluffy sculpin (''Oligocottus snyderi'') or Lizard Fish is a fish species in the sculpin family Cottidae. It inhabits the coastal northwestern Pacific Ocean, ranging from Kodiak, Alaska to Baja California Peninsula, Baja California (Mexico). Individuals reach up to in length, and are commonly found in tidepools, often associated with algae. Description The fluffy sculpin grows to a length of about . The dorsal fin has 7 to 9 spines and 17 to 20 soft rays, and the anal fin has no spines but 12 to 15 soft rays. In the male, the first anal ray is enlarged and the first three rays are separated from the others. The body is smooth and lacks scales. There is a short spine on the snout with a Cirrus (biology), cirrus beside it, and tufts of cirri on the top of the head, along the lateral line and at the base of the dorsal fin. The colour of this fish is variable, being anything from green to pink or reddish-brown. Distribution and habitat The fluffy sculpin is native to the western ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur White Greeley
Arthur White Greeley (June 13 1875 – March 15, 1904) was an American physiologist and ichthyologist. Greeley was born in Oswego, New York, the eldest of two sons of Frank Norton Greeley, a Congregational clergyman, and Anna Cheney (Buckhout) Greeley. His brother William would go on to become chief forester of the U.S. Forest Service. He graduated from Stanford University in 1898, and spent one year as a graduate student in zoology, during which he went to Alaska with the fur-seal expedition and to Brazil with the Banner-Agassiz expedition, where he made most of the biological collections. The following year he was an instructor at San Diego Normal School (now San Diego State University), leaving there to enter the University of Chicago as fellow in physiology. Two years later he took his doctorate of philosophy under Jacques Loeb with a thesis on the action of low temperatures on micro-organisms, and was then appointed Assistant Professor of Zoology at the Washington University i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |