Max Poll
{{Short description|Belgian ichthyologist}}
Max Fernand Leon Poll (21 July 1908 in Ruisbroek – 13 March 1991 in Uccle) was a Belgian ichthyologist who specialised in the Cichlidae. In the years 1946 and 1947 he organised an expedition to Lake Tanganyika.
He has described several species of Pseudocrenilabrinae, such as Lamprologus signatus, Steatocranus casuarius, Neolamprologus brichardi, and Neolamprologus pulcher.
He was a member of The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium, professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles, and conservator at the Royal Museum of the Belgian Congo in Tervuren.
He was an honorary member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.[http://www.asih.org/honorfm ASIH Honorary Foreign Members] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130127202539/http://www.asih.org/honorfm |date=2013-01-27 }} - asih.org
Taxon named in his honor
Named after him are species and taxa such as:
- The African Lanternshark Etmopterus polli Bigelow, Schroeder & S. Springer, 1953,
- Merluccius polli Cadenat, 1950,
- Pollichthys Grey, 1959,
- Polyipnus polli Schultz, 1961,[http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.p.html Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. P] - tmbl.gu.se [http://test.b-neat.org/bemon/?page=petymol.p.html Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. P] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725025954/http://test.b-neat.org/bemon/?page=petymol.p.html |date=2011-07-25 }} - b-neat.org
- The Catfish Microsynodontis polli J. G. Lambert, 1958.[http://www.scotcat.com/factsheets/microsyno_polli.htm * Microsynodontis polli] - scotcat.com
- The African Catfish Synodontis polli Gosse, 1982.[http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/species.php?species_id=279 Synodontis polli] - planetcatfish.com
- Placidochromis polli (W. E. Burgess & H. R. Axelrod, 1973)
- The African Tetra Phenacogrammus polli J. G. Lambert, 1961.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/characiformes1/ | title = Order CHARACIFORMES: Families DISTICHODONTIDAE, CITHARINIDAE, CRENUCHIDAE, ALESTIDAE and HEPSETIDAE | access-date= 16 March 2022 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018}}
- The bichir Polypterus polli J. P. Gosse, 1988{{FishBase|Polypterus|polli|month=February|year=2018}}
Taxon described by him
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Category:Belgian ichthyologists
Category:20th-century Belgian zoologists
Category:People from Sint-Pieters-Leeuw
Category:Academic staff of the Free University of Brussels (1834–1969)
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