ichthyologist
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ichthyologists
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Please note that the entry-level Model Y retains the previous, grumpy catfish face, for the sullen ichthyologist in your life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
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
Such a case unfolded recently for the ichthyologist Wilson Costa of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, who has long studied the diversity of killifish inhabiting southeastern Brazil's Atlantic Forest.
From Salon ● May 31, 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
The celebrated Dutch ichthyologist, Dr. Blecker, has given a catalogue of seven hundred and eighty species found at Amboyna, a number almost equal to those of all the seas and rivers of Europe.
From The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 by Alfred Russel Wallace
Sweden, and Australia, as well as ichthyologists from South Africa and the U.S.A.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2025
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
A lot of important people passed through the Fish Bowl — ichthyologists, underwater photographers — and there was a lot of experimentation: They got discus fish and angelfish to breed!
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2018
Our geologists, ichthyologists, zoologists and so on, are fearfully uneducated people.
From Letters of Anton Chekhov by Constance Garnett
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