ichthyologist
Americannoun
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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
“I’ve never thought about this before,” adds Prosanta Chakrabarty, an ichthyologist at Louisiana State University.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 20, 2023
John Pogonoski, an ichthyologist in Australia, wasn’t about to be fooled by any moray eels.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2023
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
What would an ichthyologist say to Wilkins' definition of a salmon?
From The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham college, Oxford; master of Trinity college, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester by Wright Henderson, P. A. (Patrick Arkley)
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