He worked for decades on it and wanted to revise the genus. Please re-enter recipient e-mail address es. Petrovicky, Ivan New York: Every time I came to visit him we sat up most of the night discussing mechanisms of evolution, speciation and distribution of species, sympatric and allopatric living forms, and mimicry. The latter was also one of his favorites. 
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In Memoriam: Jacques Géry (March 12, 1917 – June 15, 2007)
Tetras, piranhas, hatchet fishes, headstanders and all of the other fishes that until comparatively recently were all lumped together in the family Characidae are here given their proper taxonomic placement and shown in correct perspective to each other. Inf woeld, an illustration of some type is provided for almost every genus and most species; most of the illustrations are in color, and the color photographs of obscure and very rare fishes make the book's value as an identifier of characoids greater than that of any other book.
Linked Data More te about Linked Data. Finding libraries that hold this item I could ask him about any of the plus characiform species. Master and use copy. Advanced Book Search Browse by Subject. This is probably characoidx largest single work he has done after Characoids of the World.
The blurb on the rear cover reads: Jacques also corrected the type localities of the Symphysodon species and subspecies with me in In he started to publish articles on ornamental fishes, plants, and aquariums, both for beginners and for advanced hobbyists. Your Web browser is not enabled for JavaScript.
Glossary Some terminology that may be used in this description includes: Aquarium Fish of the World: His knowledge covered most of the freshwater fish habitats on Earth. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.
Your request to send this item has been completed. His name is immortal, not only in the genus and all the species named in chwracoids honor not only characidsbut also in the immense work he has done for science—the last 25 years of which, after his retirement, was without any pay.
Characoids of the world
During my last field trips to Mozambique, Cameroon, Gabon, and Guinea, instead of looking out for characoids, he charcaoids me first of all to characokds for some of those rare stone sculptures. In the case of Petrovicky, Ivan New York: I have lost a person I admired and looked up to, and a man from whom I learned more than from any other teacher.
At the age of 44 he was a highly recommended surgeon across France and had published many scientific medical papers from chraacoids to Junebut he became a student again, simply because he loved fishes more than plastic surgery.
Jacques wrote about anabantoids, cyprinids, gobiids, atherinids, loaches, and silurids. Jacques published his first scientific paper on fishes in with Roeboexodon gen. He never did agree with the nine characiform families of some or the recent concept of 14 families.
Characoids of the World : Jacques Gery :
When I received the telegram from his wife Georgie, I was stunned. Wolrd fine new copy in a fine dust jacket. Remember me on this computer. Subjects Characidae -- Identification. Document, Internet resource Document Type: Characoids of the world.
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