Maurice Kottelat
Template:Short description Maurice Kottelat (born 16 July 1957[1] in Delémont, Switzerland[2]) is a Swiss ichthyologist specializing in Eurasian freshwater fishes.
Kottelat obtained a License in Sciences at the University of Neuchâtel in 1987[3] and in 1989 a doctoral degree from the University of Amsterdam. In 1980 he went to Thailand where he began his field research on Southeast Asian and Indonesian fresh water fishes.[3] In 1997 he wrote an important revision on the genus Coregonus, which includes the fish species from Lake Geneva, Lake Constance and other lakes in Switzerland.[4] Together with Dr. Tan Heok Hui he worked in Sumatra, where they discovered Paedocypris progenetica, which is considered the smallest fish in the world.[5] In 2007 he published a Handbook of European Freshwater Fishes together with Jörg Freyhof. Kottelat has described more than 440 fish species new to science.[6]
In 2006 he was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa degree at the University of Neuchâtel.[7] Kottelat is the former (1997–2007) and present (2012–present) president of the European Ichthyological Society.[2] He is a commissioner of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. For most of his career, he has held no academic position but worked as a "freelance taxonomist".[2]
Publications (selected)
- 1990 Maurice Kottelat: Indochinese Nemacheilines, a revision of nemacheiline loaches (Pisces: Cypriniformes) of Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia and southern Viet Nam. 180 text-figures. 8vo, pp. 262[8]
- 1996 Maurice Kottelat & Tony Whitten: Freshwater Biodiversity in Asia: With Special Reference to Fish[9]
- 1997 Maurice Kottelat: 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.):1-271.[8]
- 1997 Maurice Kottelat: Freshwater Fishes of Western Indonesia and Sulawesi[9]
- 1998 Maurice Kottelat: 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 V.L. Wirasinha and Reproduction of all Illustrations[8]
- 1998 Maurice Kottelat: Fishes of the Nam Theun and Xe Bangfai basins, Laos, with diagnoses of twenty-two new species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae, Balitoridae, Cobitidae, Coiidae and Odontobutidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 9(1):1-128.
- 2001 Maurice Kottelat : Fishes of Laos[8]
- 2001 Maurice Kottelat: 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[8]
- 2007 Maurice Kottelat & Jörg Freyhof: Handbook of European Freshwater Fishes Published by the authors. Template:ISBN
- 2012 Maurice Kottelat: Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei) Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 26: 1–199.
- 2013 Maurice Kottelat: The fishes of inland waters of Southeast Asia: a catalogue and core bibliography of the fishes known to occur in freshwaters, mangroves and estuaries. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 27: 1–663.
Taxa described by him
Taxa named in his honor
- Exostoma kottelati Darshan, Vishwanath, Abujam & Das, 2019[10]
- The monospecific genus Kottelatia Liao, Kullander & Fang, 2010[11]
- The genus Kottelatlimia Nalbant, 1994[12]
- Monodactylus kottelati Pethiyagoda, 1991[13]
- Neogastromyzon kottelati Tan, 2006[14]
- Oxynoemacheilus kottelati Turan, Aksu, Güçlü & Kalayci, 2024[15]
- Rasbora kottelati K. K. P. Lim, 1995[11]
- Salmo kottelati Turan, Doğan, Kaya, & Kanyılmaz, 2014 is named after him.[16]
- Schistura kottelati Ho, Hoang & Ngo, 2018[15]
- Squalius kottelati (Karaman, 1972) [17]
- Tondanichthys kottelati Collette, 1995[18]
References
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- ↑ Kraig Adler: Contributions to Herpetology, Volume 3, 2012
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- ↑ Maurice Kottelat: "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 (Supplement):271 pp
- ↑ Maurice Kottelat, Ralf Britz, Heok Hui Tan, Kai-Erik Witte, 2005. "Paedocypris, a new genus of Southeast Asian cyprinid fish with a remarkable sexual dimorphism, comprises the world's smallest vertebrate." Proceedings of the Royal Society B 10.1098/rspb.2005.3419.
- ↑ Raffles Museum news - "2400 years of Ichthyology, but an inventory still far from complete."
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