Barton Appler Bean was an American ichthyologist, born May 21, 1860 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and died June 16, 1947 in Chemung, New York, after falling from a bridge.
American ichthyologists Stewart Springer and George H. Burgess described the dwarf lanternshark from specimens collected via trawling by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service research ship Oregon in 1964.
Francis Willughby (1635–1672), English ornithologist and ichthyologist
George S. Myers (1905–1985), American ichthyologist from Stanford University
Gerald R. Allen (born 1942 in Los Angeles, California ) is an American born Australian ichthyologist.
1 The society is named for celebrated ichthyologist Charles Henry Gilbert (1859‒1928), who either by himself or as coauthor (most often with his mentor and later colleague David Starr Jordan) was responsible for the discovery and naming of approximately 117 new genera and about 620 new species of fishes, including about 25% of the fish fauna of Washington and Oregon.
Chaplin grew up in Nassau, Bahamas, where his father, Charles C. G. Chaplin, worked as an ichthyologist and co-authored the taxonomic textbook Fishes of the Bahamas and Adjacent Tropical Waters (Livingston Press 1968:, University of Texas Press 1992).
Carl Leavitt Hubbs, a noted American ichthyologist, published a description of a whale found alive in the surf near his office at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, in 1945.
Hugh McCormick Smith (1865–1941), American ichthyologist and administrator in the Bureau of Fisheries
Isaäc J. H. Isbrücker (born 1944) is a retired Dutch ichthyologist who specialised in the scientific classification of South American catfish (Loricarioidea).
John Dow Fisher Gilchrist (1866-1926), Scottish South African ichthyologist
The Littlehead porgy was described in 1884 by the ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert, who were both professors (Jordan later became president) of Stanford University.
Petre Mihai Bănărescu (born 15 September 1921 in Craiova, Dolj County — died 12 May 2009 in Bucharest) was a Romanian ichthyologist.
Pierre Fourmanoir (1924–2007) was a French ichthyologist working mainly in New Caledonia.
Japanese ichthyologist Yasunori Miyosi described the pitted stingray in a 1939 issue of the Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan, based on a specimen collected from the Hyuga-nada Sea in eastern Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan.
It was described by American ichthyologists Hugh McCormick Smith and Lewis Radcliffe in a 1912 paper for the scientific journal Proceedings of the United States National Museum, based on two specimens collected in Batangas Bay, south of Luzon in the Philippines.
Sunder Lal Hora (1896 - December 8, 1955) was an Indian ichthyologist.
Decio Vinciguerra (1856–1934), Italian physician and ichthyologist
William Orville Ayres (1817–1887), American physician and ichthyologist
Royal and other divers, including ichthyologist Eugenie Clark, found human and animal bones in the spring, suggesting that the cave was inhabited in prehistoric times.