Francis BuchananFRSE FRS FLS, later known as Francis Hamilton but often referred to as Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, was a Scottish surgeon, surveyor and botanist who made significant contributions as a geographer and zoologist while living in India. He did not assume the name of Hamilton until three years after his retirement from India.
Léon Louis Vaillant was a French zoologist. He is most famous for his work in the areas of herpetology, malacology, and ichthyology.
Johann Jakob Heckel was an Austrian taxidermist, zoologist, and ichthyologist from Mannheim in the Electoral Palatinate.
Victor Gruschka Springer is Senior Scientist emeritus, Division of Fishes at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is a specialist in the anatomy, classification, and distribution of fishes, with a special interest in tropical marine shorefishes. He has published numerous scientific studies on these subjects; also, a popular book called "Sharks in Question, the Smithsonian Answer Book" 1989.
The Panama ghost catshark is a lesser known catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae. This catshark is only found off Panama, between 9°N and 2°N. The reproduction of the Panama ghost shark is oviparous.
The Papuan epaulette shark, Hemiscyllium hallstromi, is a bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae found around southern Papua New Guinea, between latitudes 7° S and 10° S, and longitude 144° E and 146° E. Its length is up to 75 cm.
Gilbert Percy Whitley was a British-born Australian ichthyologist and malacologist who was Curator of Fishes at the Australian Museum in Sydney for about 40 years. He was born at Swaythling, Southampton, England, and was educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton and the Royal Naval College, Osborne.
Triplophysa arnoldii is a species of stone loach in the genus Triplophysa. It is endemic to Mongolia. It grows to 7 cm (2.8 in) SL.
The Soldatov's gudgeon is a species of gudgeon, a small freshwater in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in Asia in the Amur River drainage in Russia and China, on the Sakhalin Island, and in Lake Buir in Mongolia. It is a demersal fish, up to 12.0 cm long.
Peter Robert Last is an Australian ichthyologist, curator of the Australian National Fish Collection and a senior principal research scientist at CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR) in Hobart, Tasmania. He is an elasmobranch expert and has described many new species of shark.
Gerald Robert "Gerry" Allen is an American-born Australian ichthyologist. His career began in 1963, when he spent a semester at the University of Hawaii, where he also received a PhD in marine zoology in 1971. In 1972, Allen wrote his doctoral thesis on the systematics and biology of the anemone fish.
Cottus dzungaricus is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. It is endemic to China. It reaches a maximum length of 10.0 cm. This species was first formally described in 2006 by the Belgian ichthyologist Maurice Kottelat a replacement name for Li & Ho's Cottus sibiricus altaicus of 1966, a name preoccupied by Cottus poecilopus altaicus which had been named by Nicholas Feofanovich Kaschenko in 1899. The type locality is Altai, northern Sinkiang in China. This species is distinguished from Cottus sibiricus by having a naked body whereas C. sibiricus is covered in prickles. The specific name dzungarius, means belonging to Dzungaria, northern Xinjiang where the species is found.
Cottus szanaga is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. It is found in Mongolia and Russia. It reaches a maximum length of 8.2 cm. This species was first formally described in 1869 by the Polish naturalist Benedykt Dybowski with its type locality given as the Onon River in the Amur River drainage basin of Russia. The specific name szanaga is derived from Szanaga-sagasu, meaning "spoon fish" the Buryat dialect word for this fish n the Amur basin.
Microphysogobio jeoni is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to the Korean peninsula.
Pungtungia herzi is a species of cyprinid fish found in Japan and the Korean Peninsula.
Soldatov's thicklip gudgeon is a species of cyprinid fish found from the Amur to the Liaoning drainages, and Buir Lake in Mongolia.
The Chinese lizard gudgeon is a species of cyprinid fish found in the Amur basin to the Pearl River in China, Mongolia and the Korean peninsula. It is also found in Vietnam.
Helen K. Larson is an ichthyologist who specialises in the fishes of the Indo-Pacific.
Phillip Clarence Heemstra was an American-South African ichthyologist. He was born in Melrose Park, Illinois, United States as the son of Clarence William Heemstra and his wife, Lydia. He attended school in Ottawa, Illinois, and completed a B.Sc. Zoology in 1963 at the University of Illinois at Urbana, Illinois, as well as his MSc degree (1968) and doctorate (1974) in marine biology at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida. He moved to live in South Africa in 1978.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Parin was a Soviet and Russian ichthyologist, specializing in oceanic pelagic fish. He headed the Laboratory of Oceanic Ichthyofauna at the RAS Institute of Oceanology in Moscow, where he ended his career as a Professor after more than fifty-seven years. In his career, he described more than 150 new taxa of fish and participated in 20 major oceanic expeditions. Thirty-six species of fish are named in his honour.
