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Normanichthyidae
The mote sculpin (''Normanichthys crockeri''), also known as the barehead scorpionfish, is a ray-finned fish, the only member of the monotypic genus ''Normanichthys'', family Normanichthyidae and suborder Normanichthyiodei. Common names for the species in Spanish include ''camotillo'' (in Peru) and ''bacaladillo'' (in Chile). Taxonomy The mote sculpin was first described by the American zoologist Howard Walton Clark in 1937 from the harbour at Valparaiso in Chile. The fish seemed to have few affinities with other known species, and a new genus and family were erected to accommodate it. This fish is classified within the order Scorpaeniformes in the 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' but it is so unusual that it is placed in its own suborder Normanichthyiodei and family Normanichthyidae. Other authorities differ and do not consider the Scorpaeniformes to be a valid order because the Perciformes is not monophyletic without the taxa within the Scorpaeniformes being included w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perciformes
Perciformes (), also called the Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish in the clade Percomorpha. ''Perciformes'' means " perch-like". Among the well-known members of this group are perches and darters ( Percidae), and also sea basses and groupers (Serranidae). This order contains many familiar freshwater temperate and tropical marine fish groups, but also extremophiles that have successfully colonized both the North and South Poles, as well as the deepest depths of the ocean. Taxonomy Formerly, this group was thought to be even more diverse than it is thought to be now, containing about 41% of all bony fish (about 10,000 species) and about 160 families, which is the most of any order within the vertebrates. However, many of these other families have since been reclassified within their own orders within the clade Percomorpha, significantly reducing the size of the group. In contrast to this splitting, other groups formerly considered distinct, such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Templeton Crocker
Charles Templeton Crocker (September 2, 1884 – December 12, 1948) was an American philanthropist, art patron and yachtsman. He was a past president of the California Historical Society and a member of the board of directors for over twenty years. He also wrote the libretto to the first American opera that was produced in Europe; helped popularize French Art Deco in America; and funded and headed expeditions with the California Academy of Sciences and other academic institutions aboard his personal yacht . The town of Templeton, California, Templeton is named after him. Life and family Charles Templeton Crocker was born September 2, 1884, in San Francisco, California, the only son and second (of three) children born to Charles Frederick Crocker, Charles Frederick (Fred) & Jennie Crocker (née Easton); Templeton's paternal grandfather was Charles Crocker, one of the Big Four (Central Pacific Railroad), Big Four railroad magnates. Both parents died when he and his sisters were you ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
