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Jacques Pellegrin

b. 1873, d. 1944

When George Boulenger decided to devote his scientific life to roses
rather than to fish, the French ichthyologist, Jacques Pellegrin, who worked at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris was invited to study the Tervuren collections.  Pellegrin had already published a large volume on cichlids (Pellegrin, 1904) but until then his work on the Tanganyika fishes was rather limited. Pellegrin described a cave fish from Somalia as Eilichthys microphthalmus (Pellegrin 1929).  In reality it was a synonym for Barbopsis devecchii Di Caporiacco, 1926.