Nigel Robert Merrett (born 1940) is a British zoologist and ichthyologist and former director of the fish section of the British Natural History Museum.
In 1998, Merrett participated in an expedition headed by Nikolas Vasilyevich Parin to collect deepwater specimens.
Book
In 1997, Merrett, along with R.L. Haedrich, wrote the book Deep-Sea Demersal Fish and Fisheries. In the book, they warn against fishing in deep water.
Taxon described by him
Taxon named in his honor
- Merret's snailfish (Careproctus merretti), also called the snakehead snailfish is named after him.
- The eel Ilyophis nigeli. The species epithet "nigeli" was given in honour of Merrett, who was credited with making "substantial contributions" to the knowledge of the synaphobranchid eels.
References
- ^ staff (21 May 1998). "A survey of the sea: Going deep - Davy Jones's locker is the ultimate commons: vast, ownerless and largely unknown". The Economist. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
- Dunn, J. Richard; Pietsch, Theodore W (2005). "DANIEL MORRIS COHEN" (PDF). Copeia (3): 693–700. doi:10.1643/ot-04-325. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 March 2011. Retrieved 15 April 2011.
- Merrett, NR; Haedrich, R (1997). Deep-Sea Demersal Fish and Fisheries. Chapman & Hall. ISBN 0-412-39410-3.
- "Journal of Ichthyology". Scripta Publishing Company. 8 September 1989 – via Google Books.
- Ilyophis nigeli at www.fishbase.org.
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