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
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
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
A new visitor arrived at the Abbey, in the person of Mr Asterias, the ichthyologist.
From Nightmare Abbey by Peacock, Thomas Love
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