Vladimir Walters

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Vladimir Walters (born December 18, 1927 in New York City , New York , † July 1, 1987 ) was an American ichthyologist .

Life

Walters graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1944 . He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from Cornell University in 1947 and 1948 . From 1948 to 1948 he was an assistant physiologist in the United States Navy's arctic research laboratory in Point Barrow , Alaska . In 1954 he was awarded the dissertation Fishes of Western Arctic America and Eastern Arctic Siberia; taxonomy and zoogeography at New York University for Ph.D. PhD. From 1954 to 1956 he served in the Chemical Corps of the United States Army . From 1955 to 1956 he was a research fellow and from 1956 to 1961 assistant curator in the fish department at the American Museum of Natural History . From 1961 to 1974 he was assistant professor and then associate professor of zoology at the University of California, Los Angeles . In 1974 he retired as a professor emeritus . He was also a teaching assistant at New York University and a fisheries research biologist with the National Marine Fisheries Service in Miami .

Walters was a board member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH) and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the American Society of Naturalists , the American Society of Zoologists, and the Arctic Institute of North America . His research interests were in the systematics and physiology of fish, arctic biology , zoogeography and the hydrodynamics of swimming. In 1964 he was part of the team of authors alongside Henry Bryant Bigelow for the work Soft-rayed Bony Fishes: Orders Isospondyli and Giganturoidei: Part 4 from the series Fishes of the Western North Atlantic . In 1968 he published the book Studies in locomotion and anatomy of scombroid fishes in collaboration with Harry L. Fierstine .

In 1960, Walters established the genus Metavelifer and, in collaboration with John Edgar Fitch, the genera Zu and Desmodema from the family of scythes (Trachipteridae). In 1972 he and Robert Rush Miller described the now extinct El-Potosi-Kärpfling ( Megupsilon aporus ) from Mexico .

literature

  • Jaques Cattell Press (Ed.): American Men and Women of Science: The physical and biological sciences St-Z , Volume 6; 13th edition, RR Bowker Company, New York & London, 1976, p. 4680
  • Fred Berry: Vladimir Walters, 1927-1987. Copeia, Volume 1988, No. 4, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH), pp. 1112-1113

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SURNAME Walters, Vladimir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ichthyologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1987
Place of death United States