Nigel Merrett

Nigel Robert Merrett (born 1940) is a British zoologist, ichthyologist, and former director of the fish section of the British Natural History Museum. ^[1]

In 1998, Merrett participated in an expedition headed by Nikolas Vasilyevich Parin to collect deepwater samples. ^[2]

Book

In 1997, Merrett, along with R.L. Haedrich, wrote the book Deep-Sea Demersal Fish and Fisheries. ^[3] In the book, they warn against fishing in deep water. ^[1]

Taxon described by him

• See Category:Taxa named by Nigel Merrett

Taxon named in his honor

• Merret's snailfish (Careproctus merretti), also called the snakehead snailfish, ^[4] is named after him.
• The eel Ilyophis nigeli . The species epithet "nigeli" was given in honour of Merrett, who was credited with making "substantial contributions" to the knowledge of the synaphobranchid eels. ^[5]

References

1. staff (21 May 1998). "A survey of the sea: Going deep - Davy Jones's locker is the ultimate commons: vast, ownerless and largely unknown". The Economist . Retrieved 15 April 2011.
2. Dunn, J. Richard; Pietsch, Theodore W (2005). "DANIEL MORRIS COHEN" (PDF). Copeia (3): 693–700. doi:10.1643/ot-04-325. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 March 2011. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
3. Merrett, NR; Haedrich, R (1997). Deep-Sea Demersal Fish and Fisheries. Chapman & Hall. ISBN   0-412-39410-3.
4. "Journal of Ichthyology". Scripta Publishing Company. 8 September 1989 – via Google Books.
5. Ilyophis nigeli at www.fishbase.org.

External links

• Select publications by Nigel R. Merrett