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Longnose Stonebasher
The longnose stonebasher (''Gnathonemus longibarbis'') is a species of fish in the family Mormyridae. It is found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, and Tanzania. Its natural habitats are rivers, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and inland deltas. Diet The Longnose Stonebasher has been found to feed on the bottom of water sources amongst minimal vegetation. The fish mainly eats insects such as larvae but has also been known to eat a variety of arthropods, fish eggs and worms.Greenwood, P.H., 1966. The Fishes of Uganda. The Uganda Society, Kampala. 131p. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Martin Hilgendorf
Franz Martin Hilgendorf (5 December 1839 – 5 July 1904) was a German zoologist and paleontologist. Hilgendorf's research on fossil snails from the Steinheim crater in the early 1860s became a palaeontological evidence for the theory of evolution published by Charles Darwin in 1859. Life and work Franz Hilgendorf was born on 5 December 1839 in Neudamm (Mark Brandenburg). Between 1851 and 1854 he went to a gymnasium in Königsberg (Neumark) and later to the Gymnasium ''Zum Grauen Kloster'' (Grey Monastery) in Berlin where he graduated in 1858. In 1859 he started studying philology at the University of Berlin. After four semesters he changed to the University of Tübingen. In the summer of 1862 he joined an excavation by Friedrich August Quenstedt in the Steinheim crater. In 1863 Hilgendorf received his Ph.D. for work related to this excavation. He finished his research on the fossils during his time at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. In 1868, Hilgendorf became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |