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With its unusual flattened face, the fish's eyes appear to be directed forward, something Pietsch says he's never seen in 40 years as an icthyologist, a scientist who studies the structure, classification and habits of fishes.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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Professor spoke bad French, and was a mere icthyologist, who would not dare in Europe to set up as an authority in so many sciences as he did here.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various
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Whether an icthyologist would have pronounced the little Sestri fishes to be the same creatures as those which British statesmen consume at Greenwich I cannot say; but we ate them frequently at the hotel under the name of gianchetti, and could find no difference between them and the Greenwich delicacy.
What I Remember Trollope, Thomas A 1887
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The message came from J.L.B. Smith, an icthyologist to whom she'd turned when, shortly before Christmas in 1938, local fishermen brought her a fish unlike any they'd ever seen.
Wired Top Stories Brandon Keim 2011
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-- a special area of interest of the Emperor, a reknowned icthyologist.
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