James Erwin Böhlke (1930–1982) 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, 35,800 species of fish had been described as of March 2 ...

. From 1954 to 1982, he was curator of the Department of Ichthyology at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (today the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University). He published over 120 papers on diverse groups of fishes and topics, primarily in his areas of expertise, fishes of the Bahamas, Caribbean, and South America. His wife Eugenia (Genie) Brandt Böhlke (1928–2001) was also a noted ichthyologist. The serranid fish genus ''

Jeboehlkia ''Jeboehlkia'' is a monotypic genus of marine ray-finned fish, related to the groupers and classified within the subfamily Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae. It is a species of relatively deep water which is found in the western Atlantic Oce ...

'' is named in his honour,

Taxon described by him

*See :Taxa named by James Erwin Böhlke

Taxon named in his honor

*The Sand Stargazer '' Dactyloscopus boehlkei'' C. E. Dawson, 1982 *'' Monognathus boehlkei'' is a deep-sea eel inhabiting all oceans at depths up to .

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bohlke, James Erwin 1930 births 1982 deaths American ichthyologists 20th-century American zoologists