Chavalit Vidthayanon ( th, ชวลิต วิทยานนท์; born 1959 in
Bangkok
Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated populatio ...
) is a Thai
ichthyologist
Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish (Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of October ...
and senior researcher of
biodiversity
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of
WWF Thailand. He graduated from
Bangkok Christian College and graduated in
marine biology
Marine biology is the scientific study of the biology of marine life, organisms in the sea. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies ...
from
Kasetsart University
Kasetsart University ( th, มหาวิทยาลัยเกษตรศาสตร์; ), commonly known and referred to as Kaset or KU, is a public research university in Bangkok, Thailand. It is the largest university in Thailand. I ...
and
Chulalongkorn University
Chulalongkorn University (CU, th, จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย, ), nicknamed Chula ( th, จุฬาฯ), is a public and autonomous research university in Bangkok, Thailand. The university was originally fo ...
. Vidthayanon received a
Ph.D. in fishery biology from the Tokyo Fisheries University (now's
Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
, abbreviated as , is a national university in Japan. The main campus (Shinagawa Campus) is located in Minato, Tokyo and another campus (Etchujima Campus) is in Kōtō, Tokyo.
History
The university was established in 2003 with a merger of tw ...
), Japan.
He has been working on aquatic biodiversity studies in Southeast Asia since 1983. He has worked with leading ichthyologists both Thais and foreigners such as
Kittipong Jaruthanin,
T. R. Roberts,
H. H. Ng and
Maurice Kottelat
Maurice Kottelat (born 16 July 1957 in Delémont, Switzerland[Co ...](_blank)
etc. He has studied and taxonomy many of the newly discovered freshwater species in the world (many were found in
Mekong Basin) such as ''
Amblypharyngodon chulabhornae'', ''
Himantura kittipongi'', ''
Pangasius conchophilus'', ''
P. myanmar'', ''Pao palustris'', ''Pseudeutropius indigens'', ''
Schistura pridii'' etc. He specializing in Thai freshwater
catfishes.
In addition, he is also an instructor on zoology and ichthyology at several educational institutions in Thailand such as Chulalongkorn University, Kasetsart University or
Mahasarakham University etc.
See also
*
:Taxa named by Chavalit Vidthayanon
References
External links
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Living people
Taxon authorities
Ichthyologists
Chavalit Vidthayanon
1959 births
Chavalit Vidthayanon