Maurice Kottelat
Maurice Kottelat (* July 16, 1957 in Delemont, Switzerland ) is a Swiss ichthyologist who has become particularly by its taxonomic work on European freshwater fish and by his discovery of new freshwater fish in Indonesia, including some of the smallest fish in the world, is known. His research interests include the fish families Balitoridae, Nemacheilidae, Cyprinidae, and Salmonidae Sisoridae.
1976 Kottelat enrolls in the University of Neuchâtel, where in 1987 he received his diploma. In 1990 he received his doctorate at the University of Amsterdam. 1980 began his fieldwork in Thailand. In the following years he visited Laos, Indonesia, Mongolia and Greece. In 1997 he authored a revision of the genus Coregonus, which affected several fish species of the Swiss Alps and Lake Constance.
During his collaboration with Dr. Tan Heok Hui, curator at the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research in Singapore, he discovered in 1996 on Sumatra freshwater fish Paedocypris progenetica whose females with a length of 7.9 mm as the smallest fish and one of the smallest vertebrates world is true.
From 1997 to 2007 was president of the Société Européenne d' Kottelat Ichthyology, a company founded in 1976 the Association of European ichthyologists.
Kottelat described over 440 new Fischtaxa and published about 280 scientific publications. Since 1989 he has been editor of the journal Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters.
Kottelat lives in Cornol in the Swiss canton of Jura.
Awards
1976 Maurice Kottelat received the Prix de Jeune Société d' Emulation Jurassic ( SJE ). On November 4, 2006, he received in a solemn ceremony this - Academicus an honorary doctorate from the University of Neuchâtel. In 2007 he was awarded the Prix scientifique Jules Thurman Société d' Emulation Jurassic.
Dedikationsnamen
Among the fish species and genera have been named after Kottelat include Kottelatia brittani, Monodactylus kottelati, Neogastromyzon kottelati, Rasbora kottelati and Tondanichthys kottelati.