Richard Heinrich Rosenblatt (December 21, 1930 – October 14, 2014)
was an American
ichthyologogist.
Rosenblatt was born in
Kansas City
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,
Missouri
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in 1930, and died in
San Diego, California
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in 2014. Rosenblatt was awarded the Frederick H. Stoye Award for undergraduate students in ichthyology by the
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
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in 1956 and 1957.
He held three degrees from the
University of California, Los Angeles
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, receiving his BA in 1953, his MA in 1954, and his PhD in 1959.
Rosenblatt proposed in his unpublished dissertation what is now the genus name for the
Largemouth triplefin, ''Ucla'', after the initials of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
See also
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:Taxa named by Richard Heinrich Rosenblatt
References
1930 births
2014 deaths
American ichthyologists
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