A practice of ichthyology is closely attached by having marine biology, limnology, and oceanography.

History

A number one scientific description of fish occurs inside Aristotle, who mentions various information astir 118 metal money. Little extra act is known until a 1500s, when Guillaume Rondelet published his De Piscibus Marinum describing 244 species. In a period of the 1600s, explorers found newly types of fish; George Markgraf's Naturalis Brasilae added another Centred coinage, & around 1686 the Historia Piscium of John Ray and Francis Willughby described over 400 mintage.

A title "father of ichthyology" belongs to Peter Artedi, a student of Linnaeus who identified five orders of "fishes" (including cetaceans) and divided victims into genera. Artedi drowned by accident inside an Amsterdam canal in 1735, and Linnaeus published his manuscripts posthumously.

In a period of the 18th and 19th century, a steadily stream of specimens from either tons area of the globe deluged museums.

In the 1780s Marcus Elieser Bloch published Ichthyologia as a series of volumes of plates, and fallowing he died, his associate Johann Gottlob Schneider published the M. E. Blochii Systemae Ichthyologiae describing 1,519 species.

Georges Cuvier's Regne animal distribué d’après son organisation of 1817-1830 was a key step forward for fish classification, and Cuvier worked with his student Achille Valenciennes to produce the 22-volume Histoire Naturelle des Poissons in the 1830s - though never completed, the work described 4,514 species.

Albert Günther published his Catalogue of the Fishes of the British Museum between 1859 and 1870, describing over 6,800 metal money & mentioning a second 1,700.

A greatest ichthyologist as much as a beginning of the 20th century is generally considered to become David Starr Jordan, who wrote 650 articles & books on the subject, additionally to serving when president of Indiana University and Stanford University.

Journals

Copeia

Organizations

American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

Notable ichthyologists

A list come followed by their fields of specialization & major contributions: Alexander Emanuel Agassiz Louis Agassiz Peter Artedi William O. Ayres - California Spencer Fullerton Baird Tarleton Bean Pieter von Bleeker - East Indies Marcus Elieser Bloch George Albert Boulenger Edward Drinker Cope Georges Cuvier Francis Day - India Bashford Dean Carl H. Eigenmann Samuel Garman Charles Henry Gilbert Theodore Nicholas Gill Charles Girard George Brown Goode Albert Günther Carl L. Hubbs David Starr Jordan Seth Meek John Treadwell Nichols - China, founder of Copeia John Richardson Norman C. Tate Regan Donn E. Rosen Edwin C. Starks Franz Steindachner Achille Valenciennes Francis Willughby