Maurice Kottelat (born 16 July 1957Kraig Adler: Contributions to Herpetology, Volume 3, 2012 in Delémont, SwitzerlandCommissioners: Dr Maurice Kottelat International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (accessed 2014)) is a Swiss ichthyologist specializing in Eurasian freshwater fishes.
Kottelat obtained a License in Sciences at the University of Neuchâtel in 1987 and in 1989 a doctoral degree from the University of Amsterdam. In 1980 he went to Thailand where he began his field research on Southeast Asian and Indonesian fresh water fishes. In 1997 he wrote an important revision on the genus Coregonus, which includes the fish species from Lake Geneva, Lake Constance and other lakes in Switzerland.Maurice Kottelat: "European Freshwater fishes. An heuristic checklist of the freshwater fishes of Europe (exclusive of former USSR), with an introduction for non-systematists and comments on nomenclature and conservation". Biologia (Bratislava) Sect. Zool., 52 (Supplement):271 pp Together with Dr. Tan Heok Hui he worked in Sumatra, where they discovered Paedocypris progenetica, which is considered the smallest fish in the world.Maurice Kottelat, Ralf Britz, Heok Hui Tan, Kai-Erik Witte, 2005. "Paedocypris, a new genus of Southeast Asian cyprinid fish with a remarkable sexual dimorphism, comprises the world's smallest vertebrate." Proceedings of the Royal Society B 10.1098/rspb.2005.3419. In 2007 he published a Handbook of European Freshwater Fishes together with Jörg Freyhof. Kottelat has described more than 440 fish species new to science.Raffles Museum news - "2400 years of Ichthyology, but an inventory still far from complete."
In 2006 he was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa degree at the University of Neuchâtel.Dies academicus 4 novembre 2006 Uni Neuchatel Kottelat is the former (1997–2007) and present (2012–present) president of the European Ichthyological Society. He is a commissioner of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. For most of his career, he has held no academic position but worked as a "freelance taxonomist".
Publications (selected)
1990 Maurice Kottelat: Indochinese Nemacheilines, a revision of nemacheiline loaches (Pisces: Cypriniformes) of Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia and southern Viet Nam. 180 text-figures. 8vo, pp. 262 1996 Maurice Kottelat & Tony Whitten: Freshwater Biodiversity in Asia: With Special Reference to FishLibrary Catalog Smithsonian Institution Libraries 1997 Maurice Kottelat: European Freshwater fishes. An heuristic checklist of the freshwater fishes of Europe (exclusive of former USSR), with an introduction for non-systematists and comments on nomenclature and conservation. Biologia (Bratislava) Sect. Zool., 52 (Suppl.):1-271. 1997 Maurice Kottelat: Freshwater Fishes of Western Indonesia and Sulawesi 1998 Maurice Kottelat: Fishes of Brazil - An Aid to the Study of Spix and Agassiz's (1829-31) Selecta Genera et Species Piscium Brasiliensium Including an English Translation of the Entire Text by V.L. Wirasinha and Reproduction of all Illustrations 1998 Maurice Kottelat: Fishes of the Nam Theun and Xe Bangfai basins, Laos, with diagnoses of twenty-two new species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae, Balitoridae, Cobitidae, Coiidae and Odontobutidae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 9(1):1-128. 2001 Maurice Kottelat : Fishes of Laos 2001 Maurice Kottelat: Freshwater fishes of Northern Vietnam: A preliminary check-list of the fishes known or expected to occur in Northern Vietnam : with comments on systematics and nomenclature 2007 Maurice Kottelat & Jörg Freyhof: Handbook of European Freshwater Fishes Published by the authors. 2012 Maurice Kottelat: Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei) Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 26: 1–199. 2013 Maurice Kottelat: Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 27: 1–663.
Taxa described by him See :Category:Taxa named by Maurice Kottelat
Taxa named in his honor Exostoma kottelati Darshan, Vishwanath, Abujam & Das, 2019 The monospecific genus Kottelatia Liao, Kullander & Fang, 2010 The genus Kottelatlimia Nalbant, 1994 Monodactylus kottelati Pethiyagoda, 1991 Neogastromyzon kottelati Tan, 2006 Oxynoemacheilus kottelati Turan, Aksu, Güçlü & Kalayci, 2024 Rasbora kottelati K. K. P. Lim, 1995 Salmo kottelati Turan, Doğan, Kaya, & Kanyılmaz, 2014 is named after him. Schistura kottelati Ho, Hoang & Ngo, 2018 Squalius kottelati (Karaman, 1972) Tondanichthys kottelati Collette, 1995
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