ichthyologist
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ichthyologists
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He said he’d shared the image with an ichthyologist who had identified it as a juvenile king-of-the-salmon, scientifically known as Trachipterus altivelis, which is part of the ribbonfish family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026
John Pogonoski, an ichthyologist in Australia, wasn’t about to be fooled by any moray eels.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
In an e-mail to Scientific American, ichthyologist Dahiana Arcila, curator of marine vertebrates at the University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, noted the part played by technology in the discovery.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 7, 2023
The dam-building rush is an ecological disaster in the making, says ichthyologist Steven Weiss of the University of Graz.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 23, 2022
I, as an ichthyologist, am in the wrong paradise.
From Travels in West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley
Sweden, and Australia, as well as ichthyologists from South Africa and the U.S.A.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2025
I eventually found out there was a Facebook group full of shark scientists and ichthyologists and marine biologists who were discussing it.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2023
In a study published in 2014, Long worked with a team of ichthyologists at Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., led by the late Jeff Graham, to nail it down.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 17, 2020
Richard Pyle, a senior curator of ichthyology at the Bishop Museum, said Dr. Randall was a generous mentor and among the most prolific ichthyologists of all time.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2020
Why this is so must be decided by ichthyologists, for there are no bright, silvery-scaled fish inhabiting the ocean at such depths as eighty or a hundred fathoms.
From By Rock and Pool on an Austral Shore, and Other Stories by Louis Becke
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