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1.1 – Intro to fishes, Intro to Biology, Ecology
1.2 – History of ichthyology
Ichthyology
Biology of Fishes
Gila Wilderness, New Mexico ca. 1969
Africa
Little Colorado River Gorge, AZ
Oklahoma
BelgiumYucatan
SoCal
South Side of Anacapa Island, OLLI and CSUCI classes, Spring 2006
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Fish
Fishes
Fish Diversity
ca. 25,000 described species
482 families with living representatives
Smallest < 1cm
Largest > 12m
Smallest < 1cm
Largest > 12m
8,370m (27,455 feet)
Deepest
Abyssobrotula galatheae
Highest
5,200m (17,000 feet)
Hottest
Coldest
43.8° C (110.8°F)
-1.86° C (28.6°F)
Hypersaline
Cyprinodon variegatus
Torrential water
Green River, Utah
Trogloglanis pattersoni
Satan eurystomus
Caves
Airbreathing
Diet
Reproduction
Life Spans
several weeks
150+ years
Fishes
“Fishes” 5 Living Groups
JawlessJawed
Jawless
Bony
Cartilaginous
jawless fishes
jawed fishes
fossil fishes
Some history ….
The Ancients
Aristotle
Pliny’s Natural History
Middle Ages
Science reawakens (in the west)
Guillaume Rondelet (1507-1566)
De Piscibus Marinum (1554-55)
Mixing fact and myth …
Mark Catesby (1683-1749)
Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahamas (1743)
Travel, Trade and Exploration
Francis Willughby (1635-1672)
John Ray (1627-1705)
1686
Carl Linnaeus
(1707-1778)
Father of modern classification
Linnaeus (1758)
Foundations of Modern Classification
Ichthyologigia (1738)
Peter Artedi (1705-1735)
Mark Eliezer Bloch (1723-1799)
Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische (1782–95)
Bernard de Lacépède (1756-1826)
Histoire Naturelle des Poissons
(VI -XI) (1798-1803)
George Cuvier (1769-1832)
Achille Valenciennes (1794-1865)
Histoire Naturelle des poissons, 22 vols. (incomplete)
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
George Albert Boulenger (1858-1937)
Albert C. L. G. Günther (1830-1914)
British Museum (Natural History)
North American Ichthyology
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1784-1843)
David H. Storer (1804-1891)
A Synopsis of the Fishes of North America – 1846, Boston
Charles Girard (1822-1985)
Western Exploration
Theadore N. Gill (1837-1914)
Edward D. Cope (1840-1897)
David Starr Jordan (1851-1931)
Carl and Rosa EigenmannC.H. Gilbert
Seth MeekJ.O. Snyder
Carl and Laura Hubbs
B.W. Evermann
Carl L. Hubbs
(1894-1979)
Robert Rush Miller (1916-2003)
1996 – La Paz, Mexico
Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)
Jardin des Plantes, Paris
Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)
Harvard, Museum of Comparative Zoology
David Starr Jordan (1851-1831)
Stanford University, California
Charles Henry Gilbert (1859-1828)
Stanford University, California
Carl L. Hubbs (1894-1979)
University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Louis Krumholz (1909-1981)
University of Louisville, Tennessee
W. L. Minckley (1935-2001)
Arizona State University, Tempe
Mayan pyramid at Calakmul, Yucatán -- 2000
The American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
ASIH 1932
ASIH 1962
