Adam Ben-Tuvia

Adam Ben-Tuvia (born July 22, 1919 in Krakow , Poland , † 1999 in Jerusalem , Israel ) was an Israeli marine biologist and ichthyologist of Polish descent.

Live and act

From 1937 to 1939, Ben-Tuvia completed a degree in agricultural sciences at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, which he had to abandon at the beginning of the Second World War. In 1944 he emigrated to Palestine , where he studied biology and zoology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he graduated in 1947 with a Master of Science degree. From 1946 to 1964 he was an employee of the Sea Fisheries Research Station in Haifa , which is subordinate to the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture. During this time he specialized in fish biology, experimental fishing and fish systematics. In 1955 he received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. PhD. From 1964 to 1969 he worked in the Department of Fisheries, Fishery Resources and Fish Use of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). From 1969 to 1971 he worked again at the Sea Fisheries Research Station in Haifa. After the death of his mentor Heinz Steinitz , Ben-Tuvia became a lecturer at the zoological department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1972. In 1985 he became a professor and in 1988 he received the title of professor emeritus. In 1991 he retired.

Ben-Tuvia taught ichthyology and was curator of an extensive fish collection. He wrote numerous specialist articles in the areas of systematics, biology and zoogeography. Ben-Tuvia described at least eight new fish taxas , including Atrobuccia geniae , Cephalopholis oligosticta , Rhynchoconger trewavasae , Hoplolatilus oreni , Hyporthodus haifensis , Panturichthys fowleri , Upeneus pori, and Tristramella sacra intermedia . He also wrote several entries about fish in the Encyclopaedia Hebraica .

Ben-Tuvia was married and had two sons and a daughter.

Dedication names

After Ben-Tuvia seven Meeresfischtaxa are named, including Doryrhampus multiannulatus bentuviae (Fowler & Steinitz, 1956), Didogobius bentuvii (Miller, 1966), Siokunichthys bentuviai (Clark, 1966), Lepidotrigla bentuviai (Richards & Saksena, 1977), Callionymus bentuviai ( Fricke, 1981), Lobulogobius bentuviai (Goren, 1984) (now a synonym of Bryaninops ridens (Smith, 1859)) and Narcine bentuviai (Baranes & Randall, 1989).

literature

• Bo Beolens & Michael Watkins: Sharks: An Eponym Dictionary Pelagic Publishing Ltd, 2015. pp. 11-12
• Ishak Ben: Who's who in Israel and in the work for Israel abroad , Bronfman & Cohen Publications, 1980, p. 53

Web links

• Short biography in the Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names.