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Foxface Rabbitfish
The foxface rabbitfish (''Siganus vulpinus''), also known as the foxface, black-face rabbitfish or common foxface, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a rabbitfish belonging to the Family (biology), family Siganidae. It is found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It can be found in the Fishkeeping, aquarium trade. Taxonomy The foxface rabbitfish was first formally described as ''Amphacanthus vulpinus'' in 1845 by the German zoologists Hermann Schlegel & Salomon Müller with the Type locality (biology), type locality given as Ternate Island one of the Molucca Islands in Indonesia. The blotched foxface (''Siganus unimaculatus, S. unimaculatus'') differs from ''S. vulpinus'' in possessing a large black spot below the soft-rayed part of the dorsal fin. It is sympatric and not phylogenetically distinct, and though these two might be recently evolved species, they may be just colour Polymorphism (biology), morphs and should arguably to be united under the scientific name ''S. vulpinu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Schlegel
Hermann Schlegel (10 June 1804 – 17 January 1884) was a German ornithologist, herpetologist and ichthyologist. Early life and education Schlegel was born at Altenburg, the son of a brassfounder. His father collected butterflies, which stimulated Schlegel's interest in natural history. The discovery, by chance, of a buzzard's nest led him to the study of birds, and a meeting with Christian Ludwig Brehm. Schlegel started to work for his father, but soon tired of it. He travelled to Vienna in 1824, where, at the university, he attended the lectures of Leopold Fitzinger and Johann Jacob Heckel. A letter of introduction from Brehm to gained him a position at the Naturhistorisches Museum. Ornithological career One year after his arrival, the director of this natural history museum, Carl Franz Anton Ritter von Schreibers, recommended him to Coenraad Jacob Temminck, director of the natural history museum of Leiden, who was seeking an assistant. At first Schlegel worked mainly o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
