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
John Pogonoski, an ichthyologist in Australia, wasn’t about to be fooled by any moray eels.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
“The water needs to go up and down gradually to guarantee that the fish juveniles can develop,” says Janice Muriel Cunha, an ichthyologist at UFPA.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 4, 2023
An ichthyologist is one who understands all about fishes.
From Stories of Great Men by Faye Huntington
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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