Bruce Baden Collette
{{Short description|American zoologist and ichthyologist}}
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| fields = Ichthyology
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Bruce Baden Collette (born March 13, 1934)[http://www.idref.fr/068908148 Bruce Baden Collette]{{Cite book|last=Press|first=Jaques Cattell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4T54tE2-aBIC&q=Bruce+Baden+Collette|title=American men & women of science: physical and biological sciences|date=1982-08-01|publisher=Bowker|isbn=978-0-8352-1416-2|pages=304|language=en}} is an American ichthyologist.
Biography
He was born on March 13, 1934, in Brooklyn, New York.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XGtmAAAAMAAJ&q=Bruce+Baden+Collette|title=Who's who in the South and Southwest|date=1976|publisher=Marquis Who's Who|isbn=978-0-8379-0815-1|pages=152|language=en}} He is the son of Raymond Hill Collette and Agnes Hellen (Lavsen) Collette.
Publications
- The diversity of fishes : biology, evolution, and ecology (with Gene S. Helfman and Douglas E. Facey); Malden (Mass.) : Blackwell science, cop. 2009.[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/495200667 The diversity of fishes] - WorldCat
- Results of the Tektite Program: ecology of coral reef fishes (with Sylvia Alice Earle); Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County, 1972.[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/758228630 Results of the Tektite Program] - WorldCat
Taxon named in his honor
- The creole darter (Etheostoma collettei) was named in his honour in 1969,{{cite journal | author1 = Birdsong, R. S. | author2 = L. W. Knapp | year =1969 | title = Etheostoma collettei a new darter of the subgenus Oligocephalus from Louisiana and Arkansas | journal = Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany | volume = 15 | issue = 3 | pages = 106–112 | url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4335680#page/124/mode/1up}}
- The toadfish genus Colletteichthys was named in 2006 in his honour too.{{cite web | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | url = http://www.etyfish.org/batrachoidiformes/ | title = Order BATRACHOIDIFORMES (Toadfishes) | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 10 October 2019 | accessdate = 29 September 2020}}
Taxon described by him
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Category:American ichthyologists
Category:Cornell University alumni
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