William J. Phillipps (1893–1967) was a New Zealand
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 ...
.
He was in 1923 resident naturalist and ethnologist at the
Dominion Museum of Wellington.
Bibliography
*William J. Phillipps with
Gilbert Percy Whitley
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(1939) ''Descriptive notes on some New Zealand fishes'' Transactions of the
Royal Society of New Zealand
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, 69: 228-236.
*Phillipps, W.J. (1932) ''Notes on new fishes from New Zealand''. New Zealand journal of science and technology 13: 226–234
See also
*
:Taxa named by William John Phillipps
References
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New Zealand ichthyologists
Scientific illustrators
1893 births
1967 deaths
20th-century New Zealand zoologists