Daniel Morris Cohen (6 July 1930 - 26 September 2016)
was an American
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 Octobe ...
who was known for his studies on the taxonomy of
salmonid
Salmonidae is a family of ray-finned fish that constitutes the only currently extant family in the order Salmoniformes . It includes salmon (both Atlantic and Pacific species), trout (both ocean-going and landlocked), chars, freshwater whitefis ...
,
gadid
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, and
ophidiform fishes.
Cohen mainly studied the taxonomy of deep-sea fishes in the orders Salmoniformes, Gadiformes, and Ophidiformes. He held the post of professor of biology at the
University of Florida
The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida, traces its origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its ...
for one year. He then took an appointment at the U.S.
Bureau of Commercial Fisheries
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Ichthyological Laboratory in
Washington, D.C.
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as a systematic zoologist. He stayed there for 23 years before moving to California to become the Chief Curator of Life Sciences at the
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Cohen was the Deputy Director for Research and Collections when he retired in 1995.
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American ichthyologists
1930 births
2016 deaths