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Biographical Dictionary

This biographical dictionary is aimed at providing historical background to the study of hypogean (cave, karst, and phreatic) fishes of the world. This is and will continue to be a work in progress by adding and/or improving the information contained herein. Any information and/or suggestion can be submitted to Aldemaro Romero at romero@macalester.edu.

Although a comprehensive history of ichthyology has yet to be written, some attempts have been made, but none of them give us the entire picture. Some are either too old (Cuvier 1828 [1995], Günther 1880, Jordan 1905) or limited in scope geographically (Myers 1964, Hubbs 1964) or conceptually (Pietsch & Anderson 1997). The history of speleology has faced similar problems. The only attempt to summarize the history of this field emphasized geomorphology (Shaw 1992). Barr’s (1966) short article on the history of cave research is confined to the United States. The role played by the study of cave organisms in general on the neo-Lamarckian movement in the United States as well as the idea of progress is better known (e.g., Ruse 1996). For more general information on the history of hypogean fish research see Romero (2001c).

For a list of the troglomorphic species of the world and their individual history, see Romero (2001a).

Key words: history of biology, history of biospeleology, cave fishes, cavefishes, hypogean fishes, biographies


Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe

Al-Azzawi, Basim M.

Alvarez del Villar, José

Besson, Jacques

Boulenger, George Albert

Breder Jr., Charles Marcus

Cope, Edward Drinker

Coronado, Salvador

Craigie, W. T.

Darwin, Charles

Davidson, Rev. Robert

DeKay, James Ellsworth

Di Caporiacco, Ludovico

Dunsire, Andy

Eigenmann, Carl H.

Eigenmann, Rosa Smith

Flint, James

Gallagher, M.

Gianferrari, Luisa

Girard, Charles Frédéric

Goeldi, Emil August

Gordon, Myron

Gresser, Edward Bellamy

Hubbs, Carl Leavitt

von Humboldt, Alexander

Hyatt, Aplheus

Innes, William Thornton

Jie, Yi-Jing

Jordan, C. Basil

Kircher, Athanasius

Kosswig, Curt

de Miranda Ribeiro, Alípio

de Montalembert, Marc-René Marquis

Norman, John Roxborough

Packard, Jr., Alpheus Spring

Pearse, Arthur Sperry

Pellegrin, Jacques

Petit, Georges Jean-Jacques

Poey y Aloy, Felipe

Poulson, Thomas Layman

Putnam, Frederic Ward

Racovitza, Emil G.

Regan, Charles Tate

de Saint-Amant, Pierre Charles Fournier

Tafall, Bibiano F. Osorio

Tellkampf, August Otto Theodor

Thompson, Gordon A.

Thompson, William

Trewavas, Ethelwynn

Urich, Friederick William

Wyman, Jeffries



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