Ichthyology Lecture Exam 1

Aristotle(384-322BC)

identified fish anatomical structures & behaviors

Peter Artedi (1705-1735)

“father of icthyology”, his student Carolus Linnaeus finished his document and published it, first attempt to describe fish species, 117 species

George Cuvier & Achille Valenciennes (1828-1849)

22 volumes, first attempt to give list of world’s species of fish (~4,500 species) (Histoire Naturelle de Poissons)

Albert Gunther (1870)

added 2,000 more species, fishes of the british museum

Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1738-1840)

naturalist; kentucky, traveled around North America, book on fishes of Ohio River (some species in book may not be accurate bc Audobon lied to him)

David Starr Jordan (1851-1931)

Father of North American Icthyology, wrote a lot of books (Fishes of North & Middle America)

Leo Berg (1876-1950)

russian scientist, book on fish orders, coined/standardized -iformes for order level taxonomy

Carl Hubbs (1894-1977)

700 publications, fishes of great lakes, how we count scales/fish rays bc of him, 5 genera & 22 species named after him

Joe Nelson (1937-2011)

wrote first 3 editions of Fishes of the World

Chordate Features

notochord, dorsal hollow nerve chord, postanal tail, pharyngeal gill slits