Maurice Kottelat

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Maurice Kottelat (born July 16, 1957 in Delémont , Switzerland ) is a Swiss ichthyologist who is best known for his taxonomic work on European freshwater fish and for his discovery of new freshwater fish in Indonesia, including some of the smallest fish species in the world. His research fields include the fish families Balitoridae , Nemacheilidae , Cyprinidae , Sisoridae and Salmonidae .

Life

In 1976 Kottelat enrolled at the University of Neuchâtel , where he received his diploma in 1987. In 1990 he received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam . 1980 began his field work in Thailand. In the following years he visited Laos, Indonesia, Mongolia and Greece. In 1997 he wrote a revision of the genus Coregonus , which affected several fish species in the Swiss foothills of the Alps and Lake Constance .

During his collaboration with Dr. Tan Heok Hui, curator at the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research in Singapore , discovered the freshwater fish Paedocypris progenetica in Sumatra in 1996 , the female of which is 7.9 mm long and is considered the smallest fish and one of the smallest vertebrates in the world.

From 1997 to 2007 Kottelat was President of the Société Européenne d'Ichthyologie , an association of European ichtyologists founded in 1976.

Kottelat described over 440 new fish taxa and published about 280 scientific publications. Since 1989 he has been editor of the journal Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters .

Kottelat lives in Cornol in the Swiss canton of Jura .

Awards

In 1976 Maurice Kottelat received the Prix ​​de Jeune of the Société jurassienne d'Emulation (SJE). On November 4, 2006 he was awarded in a ceremony this-academicus ceremony the honorary doctorate of the University of Neuchatel . In 2007 he received the Prix ​​scientifique Jules Thurman of the Société jurassienne d'Emulation.

Dedication names

The fish species and genera named after Kottelat include Kottelatia brittani , Luciobarbus kottelati , Monodactylus kottelati , Neogastromyzon kottelati , Rasbora kottelati , Tondanichthys kottelati and Exostoma kottelati .

Fonts

  • 1990: Indochinese Nemacheilines, a revision of nemacheiline loaches (Pisces: Cypriniformes) of Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia and southern Viet Nam. 180 text-figures, 262 pp.
  • 1996: Freshwater Biodiversity in Asia: With Special Reference to Fish
  • 1997: European Freshwater fishes. An heuristic checklist of the freshwater fishes of Europe (exclusive of former USSR), with an introduction for non-systematists and comments on nomenclature and conservation . Biologia (Bratislava) Sect. Zool., 52 (Suppl.): 271 pp.
  • 1997: Freshwater Fishes of Western Indonesia and Sulawesi
  • 1998: Fishes of Brazil - An Aid to the Study of Spix and Agassiz's (1829-31) Selecta Genera et Species Piscium Brasiliensium Including an English Translation of the Entire Text by VL Wirasinha and Reproduction of all Illustrations
  • 2001: Fishes of Laos
  • 2001: Freshwater fishes of Northern Vietnam: A preliminary check-list of the fishes known or expected to occur in Northern Vietnam: with comments on systematics and nomenclature
  • 2007: Handbook of European Freshwater Fishes (with Jörg Freyhof ). ISBN 978-2-8399-0298-4
  • 2012: Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei) (PDF; 5.7 MB) . The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplementum No. 26, 199 pp.
  • 2013: The fishes of the inland waters of Southeast Asia: A catalog and core bibliography of the fishes known to occur in freshwaters, mangroves and estuaries. (PDF; 6.6 MB) The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, November 2013, Supplement No. 27.

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personal data
SURNAME Kottelat, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ichthyologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Delémont , Switzerland