ichthyology
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- noun
- /ɪkθiˈɑlədʒi/
- Specialized
- She decided to specialize in ichthyology after her internship at the marine research center.
- Applied Ichthyology
- Journal of Ichthyology
Examples
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In this article, we discuss how ichthyology is changing in this new era, and how the emerging phylogenomic approach has been used to study species diversification in relation to gene and genome duplications and to resolve the complex evolutionary history of ray-finned fishes.
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The study of ichthyology helps scientists understand the ecosystems of various fish species.
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We're gonna take them to the Museum of Ichthyology in Orlando.
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His Oceanic Ichthyology, a study of all the deep-sea fish known at that time, was already on the presses and would be issued in August.
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Ichthyology concerns a broad spectrum of biological research and uses systematics to deal with about one-half of vertebrate species belonging to this group.
Academic text (2010) -
Her husband, Guillaume Rondelet, a sixteenth-century French physician and the author of an early illustrated book on marine life, is regarded by many as the father of modern ichthyology.
Academic text (2005) -
Armstrong JL, Hightower JE. 2002. Potential for restoration of the Roanoke River population of Atlantic sturgeon. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 18: 475-480.
Academic text (2011) -
This revolutionary approach emerged at about the same time as new methods were developed for staining bone and cartilage for comparative and developmental morphology, improvements that together permitted spectacular progress in ichthyology during the last decades of the 20th century.
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Soto D, Norambuena F. 2004. Evaluation of salmon farming effects on marine systems in the inner seas of southern Chile: A large-scale mensurative experiment. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 20:493-501.
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Many universities offer courses in ichthyology to help students study the biology of fish.
Synonyms
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4.2
Study of animals, including how they live and behave
The study of animals and how they live
Surface Forms
Morphology
ichthyology = ichthy + ology
The suffix '-ology' is recognizable, but 'ichthy-' is a learned classical combining form not normally available to average English learners, so the meaning is not readily inferable from its parts.
Etymology
Ichthyology comes from the Greek word ichthys meaning 'fish' and the ending -logy meaning 'study', the same ending you see in biology. So ichthyology is the 'study of fish'.