| Physiculus karrerae | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gadiformes |
| Family: | Moridae |
| Genus: | Physiculus |
| Species: | P. karrerae |
| Binomial name | |
| Physiculus karrerae Paulin, 1989 | |
Physiculus karrerae, the Japanese codling, is a bathydemersal fish found in the Atlantic Ocean. [1]
This species reaches a length of 27.4 cm (10.8 in). [2]
The fish is named in honor of German ichthyologist Christine Karrer, because of her contributions to the knowledge of morid fishes. [3]
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.
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.
Gadella maraldi, the gadella or morid cod, is a species of fish in the family Moridae from the warmer waters of the north eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
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.
Loren Paul Woods (1913–1979) was an American ichthyologist and museum curator at the Field Museum of Natural History In Chicago. He joined the museum's education department as a guide lecturer in 1938. In 1941, he was transferred to the Division of Fishes, from where he retired in 1978. His career was interrupted by a four-year period of duty with the United States Navy during World War II. While he was in the navy, Marion Griswold Grey served as the unpaid curator, becoming an associate at the museum when Woods resumed his post. During his time at the Field Museum, he assembled specimen collections of North American freshwater fish and Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean marine fish. This material resulted in a major expansion of the museum's fishes holdings, which had previously been a mostly freshwater collection. Woods is best remembered for his publications on damselfish, squirrelfish, and Berycidae.
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.
Erik Bertelsen was a Danish ichthyologist, who specialised in deep sea fish. The fish, Diaphus bertelseniNafpaktitis, 1966 is named in his honour.
Daniel Morris Cohen was an American ichthyologist who was known for his studies on the taxonomy of salmonid, gadid, and ophidiform fishes.
Xyrichtys sanctaehelenae, the yellow razorfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish from the family Labridae, the wrasses. The fish is found in the Central Atlantic Ocean.
Xyrichtys incandescens, the Brazilian razorfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish from the family Labridae, the wrasses. Found in the Western Atlantic Ocean.
Physiculus andriashevi is a bathydemersal fish found in the Western Indian Ocean.
Physiculus beckeri is a bathydemersal fish found in the Western Indian Ocean.
Physiculus bertelseni is a bathydemersal fish found in the Western Indian Ocean.
Physiculus fedorovi is a bathydemersal fish found in the Western Indian Ocean.
Physiculus nielseni is a bathydemersal fish found in the Western Indian Ocean.
Physiculus coheni is a bathydemersal fish found in the Eastern Central Pacific Ocean.
Physiculus sazonovi is a bathydemersal fish found in the Eastern Central Pacific Ocean.
Physiculus therosideros, the scalyfin cod, is a bathydemersal fish found in the Eastern Central Pacific Ocean.
Physiculus parini is a bathydemersal fish found in the Southeast Pacific Ocean.
Physiculus yoshidae is a bathydemersal fish found in the Northwest Pacific Ocean near the Kyushu-Palau Ridge.
 | This Gadiformes -related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |