Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Dr. Maurice Kottelat (born 1957 in Delémont, Switzerland) is a Swiss ichthyologist.In 1976 he entered the University of Neuchâtel where he obtained his License in Sciences in 1987 and in 1989 he obtained a Dr degree at the University of Amsterdam. In 1980 he went to Thailand where he began his field research on Southeast Asian and Indonesian fresh water fishes. In 1997 he wrote an important revision on the genus Coregonus, which includes the fish species from Lake Geneva, Lake Constance and other lakes in Switzerland. Together with Dr. Tan Heok Hui, curator at the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research in Singapore, he worked in Sumatra, where they discovered Paedocypris progenetica, which is considered the smallest fish in the world. He described more than 440 fish species.On November 4, 2006, he was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa degree during the Dies academicus celebration at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.Kottelat is the former (1997-2007) and present (2012-present) president of the European Ichthyological Society.. }
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- Maurice_Kottelat abstract "Dr. Maurice Kottelat (born 1957 in Delémont, Switzerland) is a Swiss ichthyologist.In 1976 he entered the University of Neuchâtel where he obtained his License in Sciences in 1987 and in 1989 he obtained a Dr degree at the University of Amsterdam. In 1980 he went to Thailand where he began his field research on Southeast Asian and Indonesian fresh water fishes. In 1997 he wrote an important revision on the genus Coregonus, which includes the fish species from Lake Geneva, Lake Constance and other lakes in Switzerland. Together with Dr. Tan Heok Hui, curator at the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research in Singapore, he worked in Sumatra, where they discovered Paedocypris progenetica, which is considered the smallest fish in the world. He described more than 440 fish species.On November 4, 2006, he was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa degree during the Dies academicus celebration at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.Kottelat is the former (1997-2007) and present (2012-present) president of the European Ichthyological Society.".