Tarleton Hoffman Bean

Tarleton Hoffman Bean ( born October 8, 1846 in Bainbridge, † December 28, 1916 ) was an American ichthyologist.

Tarleton Hoffman Bean was born as the son of George and Mary Smith Bean Bean on October 8, 1846 in Bainbridge. He attended the public school near Millersville and was after his graduation in 1866 working for several years as a teacher. In 1874, he worked for the U.S. Commission on Fish and Fisheries on the coast of Connecticut. In the same year he took up his studies in medicine at Columbian College, which he successfully completed in 1876. However, as a doctor, he was not active. His passion was science.

In 1877 he got a job as an assistant for Ichthyology at the Smithsonian Institution and in 1879 appointed the first curator of fishes. In 1883, he finally made his dream come true and graduated from Indiana University with a Master of Sciences from. From 1895 to 1898 he headed the aquarium in New York.

During his field studies for the U.S. Commission on Fish and Fisheries, he discovered and described numerous new species of fish. Together with his colleague George Brown Goode, he published several scientific papers, including Oceanic Ichthyology ( 1896).

Honors

Rosa and Carl H. Eigenmann named 1890 Tarletonbeania genus of the family of lantern fish ( Myctophidae ) after him.

Other species that were named after Tarleton Hoffman Bean are:

• Ammocrypta beanii
• Atherinella beani
• Cichlasoma beani
• Ctenolucius beani
• Ophidion beanii

• Plectromus beanii
• Poecilopsetta beanii
• Prionotus beanii
• Scopelogadus beanii
• Serrivomer beani

Works

A selection of his works:

• Oceanic Ichthyology (1896, along with George Brown Goode )
• Catalogue of the Fishes of Long Iceland (1901 )
• Food and Game Fishes of New York ( 1902)
• The Catalogue of the Fishes of New York ( 1903)