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ichthyologist

American  
[ik-thee-ahl-uh-jist] / ˌɪk θiˈɑl ə dʒɪst /

noun

ichthyologists plural
  1. a specialist in ichthyology.


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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

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

Miller examines the story of American taxonomist and ichthyologist David Starr Jordan who doesn't give up when his life work discovering and collecting fish is destroyed in an instant in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2020

“I remember the first time I was shocked,” said Carlos David de Santana, an ichthyologist at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., who recalled falling into the water and dropping his equipment.

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2019

An ichthyologist is one who understands all about fishes.

From Stories of Great Men by Huntington, Faye

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