Max Poll
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Max Fernand Leon Poll (21 July 1908 in Ruisbroek – 13 March 1991 in Uccle) was a Belgian ichthyologist who specialised in the Cichlidae. In the years 1946 and 1947 he organised an expedition to Lake Tanganyika.
He has described several species of Pseudocrenilabrinae, such as Lamprologus signatus, Steatocranus casuarius, Neolamprologus brichardi, and Neolamprologus pulcher.
He was a member of The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium, professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles, and conservator at Musée Royal du Congo Belge in Tervuren. He was an honorary member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.[1]
Taxon named in his honor
Named after him are species and taxa such as:
- The African Lanternshark Etmopterus polli Bigelow, Schroeder & S. Springer, 1953,
- Merluccius polli Cadenat, 1950,
- Pollichthys Grey, 1959,
- Polyipnus polli Schultz, 1961,[2]
- The Catfish Microsynodontis polli J. G. Lambert, 1958,.[3]
- The African Catfish Synodontis polli Gosse, 1982.[4]
- Placidochromis polli (W. E. Burgess & H. R. Axelrod, 1973)
- The African Tetra Phenacogrammus polli J. G. Lambert, 1961.[5]
- The bichir Polypterus polli J. P. Gosse, 1988[6]
Taxon described by him
References
- ^ ASIH Honorary Foreign Members Archived 2013-01-27 at the Wayback Machine - asih.org
- ^ Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. P - tmbl.gu.se Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. P Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine - b-neat.org
- ^ * Microsynodontis polli - scotcat.com
- ^ Synodontis polli - planetcatfish.com
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CHARACIFORMES: Families DISTICHODONTIDAE, CITHARINIDAE, CRENUCHIDAE, ALESTIDAE and HEPSETIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2018). "Polypterus polli" in FishBase. February 2018 version.
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