Daniel Morris Cohen (6 July 1930 - 26 September 2017)[1] was an American ichthyologist who was known for his studies on the taxonomy of salmonid, gadid, and ophidiiform fishes.[2]
Daniel Morris Cohen | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 6, 1930 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | September 26, 2017 (aged 87) San Rafael, California, U.S. |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Ichthyology |
Cohen mainly studied the taxonomy of deep-sea fishes in the orders Salmoniformes, Gadiformes, and Ophidiformes. He held the post of professor of biology at the University of Florida for one year. He then took an appointment at the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Ichthyological Laboratory in Washington, D.C. as a systematic zoologist. He stayed there for 23 years before moving to California to become the Chief Curator of Life Sciences at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Cohen was the deputy director for Research and Collections when he retired in 1995.[3]
Taxon described by him
editTaxon named in his honor
edit- Physiculus coheni Paulin, 1989 is a bathydemersal fish found in the Eastern Central Pacific Ocean.
References
edit- ^ Bruce B. Collette (2019). "Daniel Morris Cohen (1930–2016)". Copeia. 107 (1): 160–168. doi:10.1643/OT-19-184.
- ^ J. Richard Dunn and Theodore W. Pietsch (2005). "Daniel Morris Cohen" (PDF). Copeia. 2005 (3): 693–700.
- ^ "Dr. Daniel M. Cohen". Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order GADIFORMES (part 1): Families BREGMACEROTIDAE, PHYCIDAE, GAIDROPSARIDAE, LOTIDAE, GADIDAE, RANICIPITIDAE, MERLUCCIIDAE, EUCLICHTHYIDAE, MURAENOLEPIDIDAE, MELANONIDAE, TRACHYRINCIDAE, MORIDAE, MACRURONIDAE, LYCONIDAE, BATHYGADIDAE and STEINDACHNERIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 21 March 2023.