Sentences with word «ichthyology»
Don Rosen, a curator of ichthyology at the American Museum of Natural History, wryly summarized what is involved: «Darwin said that speciation occurred too slowly for us to see it.
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The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences» ichthyology collection contains approximately 1.3 million specimens.
«In this study we have shown that deep - sea fishes that exhibit unique, species - specific bioluminescent organs, like lanternfishes and dragonfishes, also exhibit increased rates of diversification,» said Leo Smith, an assistant curator of ichthyology at the University of Kansas and a co-author on the paper.
Beyond a better understanding of fishes themselves, the potential implications of this research are wide reaching, said Edward Wiley, curator of ichthyology at the University of Kansas.
Luiz Rocha, who heads the ichthyology department at the Academy, and his deep - water team collected four new species of fish along with a sea biscuit, a kind of sand dollar, tinted a brilliant orange, which Mooi labelled as «definitely new.»
B.A., Asian Studies (interdisciplinary political science, history), University of Virginia, 1989; M.S., Animal Science (ichthyology, aquaculture), University of Maryland, 2001
Examples of investigations included in this category would involve the study of the structure, physiology, development, and classification of animals, animal ecology, animal husbandry, entomology, ichthyology, ornithology, and herpetology, as well as the study of animals at the cellular and molecular level which would include cytology, histology, and cellular physiology.
Wave Hill Horticultural Interpreter Charles Day leads a tour of these denizens of the garden, all relevant to Bashford Dean, whose interest in both arms and ichthyology is the subject of the fall exhibition in Glyndor Gallery.
[1] The name Artedidraconidae is derived from a combination of Artedi (from Peter Artedi, the «father of ichthyology») and the Greek drakōn (δράκων, dragon).