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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 expeditiontoLake Tanganyika.

He has described several speciesofPseudocrenilabrinae, 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, professoratUniversité 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[edit]

Named after him are species and taxa such as:

Taxon described by him[edit]

References[edit]

  • ^ 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"inFishBase. February 2018 version.

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