Halosaurus
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Halosaurus is a genus of fish in the family Halosauridae. This genus currently contains the following recognized specis:
- Halosaurus attenuatus Garman, 1899
- Halosaurus carinicauda (AlcockAlfred William AlcockAlfred William Alcock was a British physician naturalist and carcinologist.Alcock was the son of a sea-captain, John Alcock in Bombay, India who retired to live in Blackheath...
, 1889) - Halosaurus guentheri GoodeGeorge Brown GoodeGeorge Brown Goode , was an ichthyologist, although most of his time was spent as a museum administrator and he was very interested in the history of science, especially the history of the development of science in America. Goode graduated from Wesleyan University and studied at Harvard University...
& BeanTarleton Hoffman BeanTarleton Hoffman Bean was an American ichthyologist, born at Bainbridge, Pennsylvania on 8 October 1846. He died in Albany, New York on 28 December 1916.-FAMILY AND EDUCATION :...
, 1896 - Halosaurus johnsonianus VaillantLéon VaillantLéon Louis Vaillant was a French zoologist. He is most famous for his work in the areas of herpetology, malacology, and ichthyology...
, 1888 - Halosaurus ovenii J. Y. Johnson, 1864
- Halosaurus pectoralis McCullochAlan Riverstone McCullochAlan Riverstone McCulloch was a prominent Australian ichthyologist.McCulloch was born in Sydney, and began his scientific career at the age of 13 as an unpaid assistant to Edgar Ravenswood Waite in the Australian Museum there; Waite encouraged McCulloch to study zoology...
, 1926 (Goanna fish) - Halosaurus radiatus Garman, 1899
- Halosaurus ridgwayi (FowlerHenry Weed FowlerHenry Weed Fowler was an American zoologist born in Holmesburg, Pennsylvania.He studied at Stanford University under David Starr Jordan...
, 1934) - Halosaurus sinensis AbeTokiharu Abewas a Japanese ichthyologist. He worked for the University Museum of the University of Tokyo. Abe became notable for his taxonomic studies on the pufferfish from East Asia, in particalur the genus Takifugu which he first described in 1949. He described further species like Sagamichthys abei,...
, 1974