Nigel Merrett
{{Short description|British zoologist}}
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Nigel Robert Merrett (born 1940) is a British zoologist, ichthyologist, and former director of the fish section of the British Natural History Museum.{{cite journal |author=staff |title=A survey of the sea: Going deep - Davy Jones’s locker is the ultimate commons: vast, ownerless and largely unknown |journal=The Economist |date=1998-05-21 |url=http://www.economist.com/node/371936 |accessdate=2011-04-15 }}
In 1998, Merrett participated in an expedition headed by Nikolas Vasilyevich Parin to collect deepwater samples.{{cite journal |author1=Dunn, J. Richard |author2=Pietsch, Theodore W |title=DANIEL MORRIS COHEN |journal=Copeia |year=2005 |issue=3 |pages=693–700 |url=http://artedi.fish.washington.edu/documents/pietsch/Cohen.pdf |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20110331162756/http://artedi.fish.washington.edu/documents/pietsch/Cohen.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-03-31 |accessdate=2011-04-15 |doi=10.1643/ot-04-325 }}
Book
In 1997, Merrett, along with R.L. Haedrich, wrote the book Deep-Sea Demersal Fish and Fisheries.{{cite book |title=Deep-Sea Demersal Fish and Fisheries |author1=Merrett, NR |author2=Haedrich, R |publisher=Chapman & Hall |year=1997 |isbn=0-412-39410-3}} 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{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yNDzAAAAMAAJ&q=Careproctus+merretti++Nigel+R.+Merrett|title=Journal of Ichthyology|date=September 8, 1989|publisher=Scripta Publishing Company|via=Google Books}} 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.[http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Ilyophis-nigeli.html Ilyophis nigeli] at www.fishbase.org.
References
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External links
- [https://nhm.openrepository.com/nhm/browse?type=author&value=Merrett%2C+N.+R. Select publications by Nigel R. Merrett]
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Category:British ichthyologists
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