A Short Biography of Pieter Bleeker

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-31-2007

Publication Title

The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

Volume

2007

Issue

Supplement 14

Pages

5-6

Abstract

Bleeker's work represents the most prolific of any Indo-Pacific ichthyologist. Although he published on fishes around the Indo-Pacific, Europe, Africa, and South America, the vast majority of the taxa of fishes he described were from Indonesia. He described 1,925 new species (more than any other ichthyologist) of which 743 remain valid.

Original Publication Citation

Carpenter, K. E. (2007). A short biography of Pieter Bleeker. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement No. 14: 5-6.

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