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unusual facts about Ichthyology


Sunder Lal Hora

Sunder Lal Hora (1896 - December 8, 1955) was an Indian ichthyologist.


André Marie Constant Duméril

Under the Restauration, he was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences (French Academy of Sciences) and succeeded, after 1803, Lacépède, who was occupied by his political offices, as professor of herpetology and ichthyology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.

Draughtsboard shark

French naturalist Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre originally described the draughtsboard shark as Squalus isabella, in the 1788 ichthyology volume of the Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature.

Histoire Naturelle des Poissons

Histoire Naturelle des Poissons was a 22-volume study of Ichthyology written by Georges Cuvier and his student Achille Valenciennes in the 1830s.

Sven Kullander

Sven O. Kullander (born 1952), Swedish biologist specialising in ichthyology, first steward at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm


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