Bruce Baden Collette Explained

Bruce Baden Collette
Birth Date:	14 March 1934
Birth Place:	Brooklyn, New York, U. S.
Fields:	Ichthyology
Alma Mater:	Cornell University
Author Abbrev Zoo:	Collette

Bruce Baden Collette (born March 13, 1934)^{[1] [2]} is an American ichthyologist.

Biography

He was born on March 13, 1934, in Brooklyn, New York.^[3] 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.^[4]
• Results of the Tektite Program: ecology of coral reef fishes (with Sylvia Alice Earle); Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County, 1972.^[5]

Taxon named in his honor

• The creole darter (Etheostoma collettei) was named in his honour in 1969,^[6]
• The toadfish genus Colletteichthys was named in 2006 in his honour too.^[7]

Taxon described by him

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Notes and References

1. http://www.idref.fr/068908148 Bruce Baden Collette
2. Book: Press, Jaques Cattell. American men & women of science: physical and biological sciences. 1982-08-01. Bowker. 978-0-8352-1416-2. 304. en.
3. Book: Who's who in the South and Southwest. 1976. Marquis Who's Who. 978-0-8379-0815-1. 152. en.
4. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/495200667 The diversity of fishes
5. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/758228630 Results of the Tektite Program
6. Birdsong, R. S. . L. W. Knapp . 1969 . Etheostoma collettei a new darter of the subgenus Oligocephalus from Louisiana and Arkansas . Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany . 15 . 3 . 106–112 .
7. Web site: Christopher Scharpf . Kenneth J. Lazara . amp . Order BATRACHOIDIFORMES (Toadfishes) . The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database . Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara . 10 October 2019 . 29 September 2020.