Maurice Kottelat (born 16 July 1957 in
Delémont
Delémont (; fc, D'lémont; german: Delsberg, ) is the capital of the Swiss canton of Jura. The city has approximately 12,000 inhabitants .
History
The area of the municipality was already settled in the middle Bronze Age. Fifteen urn buria ...
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Switzerland[Commissioners: Dr Maurice Kottelat](_blank)
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (accessed 2014)) is a
Swiss ichthyologist specializing in Eurasian freshwater fishes.
Kottelat obtained a License in Sciences at the
University of Neuchâtel
The University of Neuchâtel (UniNE) is a French-speaking university based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The university has four faculties (schools) and more than a dozen institutes, including arts and human sciences, natural sciences, law and eco ...
in 1987
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Maurice Kottelat: des centaines d’espèces de poissons dans ses filets. Universite de Neuchatel. No. 33 Juillet 2006
and in 1989 a doctoral degree from the
University of Amsterdam
The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...
. In 1980 he went to
Thailand
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where he began his
field research
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on
Southeast Asia
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n and Indonesian fresh water fishes.
In 1997 he wrote an important revision on the genus ''
Coregonus
''Coregonus'' is a diverse genus of fish in the salmon family ( Salmonidae). The ''Coregonus'' species are known as whitefishes. The genus contains at least 68 described extant taxa, but the true number of species is a matter of debate. The typ ...
'', which includes the fish species from
Lake Geneva
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Lake Constance and other lakes in Switzerland. Together with Dr.
Tan Heok Hui
Heok Hui Tan is a Singaporean ichthyologist at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum of the National University of Singapore. Dr. Tan's main interest lies in the systematics of Southeast Asian freshwater fishes, encompassing taxonomy, eco ...
he worked in
Sumatra, where they discovered ''
Paedocypris progenetica
''Paedocypris progenetica'' is a species of tiny cyprinid fish endemic to the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Bintan where it is found in peat swamps and blackwater streams. It was discovered by Singaporean ichthyologist Heok Hui
Tan. He ha ...
'', which is considered the
smallest fish in the world.
[Maurice Kottelat, Ralf Britz, Heok Hui Tan, Kai-Erik Witte, 2005.]
''Paedocypris'', a new genus of Southeast Asian cyprinid fish with a remarkable sexual dimorphism, comprises the world's smallest vertebrate.
''Proceedings of the Royal Society B'' 10.1098/rspb.2005.3419. In 2007 he published a ''Handbook of European Freshwater Fishes'' together with
Jörg Freyhof
Jörg Arthur Freyhof (born 4 November 1964 in Ludwigshafen) is a German ichthyologist specializing on Old World cypriniform fishes. . Kottelat has described more than 440 fish species new to science.
In 2006 he was awarded a
Doctor Honoris Causa
An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements. It is also known by the Latin phrases ''honoris causa'' ("for the sake of the honour") or ''ad ho ...
degree at the
University of Neuchâtel
The University of Neuchâtel (UniNE) is a French-speaking university based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The university has four faculties (schools) and more than a dozen institutes, including arts and human sciences, natural sciences, law and eco ...
.
Dies academicus 4 novembre 2006
Uni Neuchatel Kottelat is the former (1997-2007) and present (2012-present) president of the European Ichthyological Society. He is a commissioner of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. For most of his career, he has held no academic position but worked as a "freelance taxonomist".
Publications (selected)
*1990 Maurice Kottelat: ''Indochinese Nemacheilines, a revision of nemacheiline loaches (Pisces: Cypriniformes) of Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia and southern Viet Nam.'' 180 text-figures. 8vo, pp. 262[Zoobank](_blank)
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*1996 Maurice Kottelat & Tony Whitten: ''Freshwater Biodiversity in Asia: With Special Reference to Fish''[Library Catalog Smithsonian Institution Libraries](_blank)
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*1997 Maurice Kottelat: ''European Freshwater fishes. An heuristic checklist of the freshwater fishes of Europe (exclusive of former USSR), with an introduction for non-systematists and comments on nomenclature and conservation''. Biologia (Bratislava) Sect. Zool., 52 (Suppl.):1-271.
*1997 Maurice Kottelat: ''Freshwater Fishes of Western Indonesia and Sulawesi''
*1998 Maurice Kottelat: ''Fishes of Brazil - An Aid to the Study of Spix and Agassiz's (1829-31) Selecta Genera et Species Piscium Brasiliensium'' Including an English Translation of the Entire Text by V.L. Wirasinha and Reproduction of all Illustrations
*1998 Maurice Kottelat: Fishes of the Nam Theun and Xe Bangfai basins, Laos, with diagnoses of twenty-two new species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae, Balitoridae, Cobitidae, Coiidae and Odontobutidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 9(1):1-128.
*2001 Maurice Kottelat : ''Fishes of Laos''
*2001 Maurice Kottelat: ''Freshwater fishes of Northern Vietnam: A preliminary check-list of the fishes known or expected to occur in Northern Vietnam : with comments on systematics and nomenclature''
*2007 Maurice Kottelat & Jörg Freyhof: ''Handbook of European Freshwater Fishes'' Published by the authors.
*2012 Maurice Kottelat
''Raffles Bulletin of Zoology'', Supplement 26: 1–199.
*2013 Maurice Kottelat
''Raffles Bulletin of Zoology'', Supplement 27: 1–663.
Taxon described by him
*See :Taxa named by Maurice Kottelat
Taxon named in his honor
*''Rasbora kottelati
''Rasbora kottelati'' is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus '' Rasbora''. It is found in northwestern Borneo.
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of Swiss ichthyologist Maurice Kottelat
Maurice Kottelat (born 16 July 1957 in Delémont, ...
'' K. K. P. Lim
*''Salmo kottelati
''Salmo kottelati'' is a species of trout endemic to the Alakır Stream of Antalya Province in southern Turkey. It was previously considered part of '' Salmo macrostigma'' (''Salmo trutta macrostigma'').
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of S ...
'' Turan
Turan ( ae, Tūiriiānəm, pal, Tūrān; fa, توران, Turân, , "The Land of Tur") is a historical region in Central Asia. The term is of Iranian origin and may refer to a particular prehistoric human settlement, a historic geographical re ...
, Doğan, Kaya
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, & Kanyılmaz, 2014 is named after him.
References
External links
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1957 births
Living people
People from Delémont
Swiss ichthyologists
University of Neuchâtel alumni