Nigel Merrett Explained

Nigel Robert Merrett (born 1940) is a British zoologist and ichthyologist and former director of the fish section of the British Natural History Museum.^[1]

In 1998, Merrett participated in an expedition headed by Nikolas Vasilyevich Parin to collect deepwater specimens.^[2]

Book

In 1997, Merrett, along with R.L. Haedrich, wrote the book Deep-Sea Demersal Fish and Fisheries.^[3] In the book, they warn against fishing in deep water.^[1]

Taxon described by him

• See

Taxon named in his honor

• Merret's snailfish (Careproctus merretti), also called the snakehead snailfish^[4] 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.^[5]

External links

• Select publications by Nigel R. Merrett

Notes and References

1. staff . A survey of the sea: Going deep - Davy Jones’s locker is the ultimate commons: vast, ownerless and largely unknown . . 1998-05-21 . 2011-04-15 .
2. Dunn, J. Richard . Pietsch, Theodore W . DANIEL MORRIS COHEN . Copeia . 2005 . 3 . 693–700 . https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20110331162756/http://artedi.fish.washington.edu/documents/pietsch/Cohen.pdf . dead . 2011-03-31 . 2011-04-15 . 10.1643/ot-04-325 .
3. Book: Deep-Sea Demersal Fish and Fisheries . Merrett, NR . Haedrich, R . Chapman & Hall . 1997 . 0-412-39410-3.
4. Web site: Journal of Ichthyology. September 8, 1989. Scripta Publishing Company. Google Books.
5. http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Ilyophis-nigeli.html Ilyophis nigeli