Pieter Bleeker

Pieter Bleeker (10 July 1819 – 24 January 1878) was a Dutch medical doctor, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He was famous for the Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néêrlandaises, his monumental work on the fishes of East Asia published between 1862 and 1877. Bleeker died on 24 January 1878 in The Hague.
Pieter BleekerBorn10 July 1819

Zaandam, the NetherlandsDied24 January 1878 (aged 58)

The Hague, the NetherlandsKnown forAtlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales NéêrlandaisesAwardsDoctorates honoris causa at Leyden University and Utrecht University, Légion d'honneurScientific careerFields Herpetology
 Ichthyology
 Tropical medicineInstitutionsRoyal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Museum of Natural History (France)
Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean StudiesAuthor abbrev. (zoology)Bleeker

 Taxa named after him 
 Osteochilus bleekeri - a cyprinid fish endemic to Borneo and Sumatra
 Triplophysa bleekeri - a stone loach endemic to China
 Argyrops bleekeri, an argyrops fish also known as the Taiwan tai
 Chlorurus bleekeri, known commonly as Bleeker's parrotfish

 Related pages 
 Kyphosichthys

 References 
 "Pieter Bleeker (1819 - 1878)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 15 July 2020.
 "Naturalis Topstukken". topstukken.naturalis.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2021-04-08.

 Further reading 
 P. Bleeker, Levensbericht in: Jaarboek, 1877, Amsterdam, pp. 5-159 (Autobiography of Bleeker with an introduction by Pieter Harting).  (in Dutch).
 Whitehead PJ, Boeseman M, Wheeler AC (1966). "The types of Bleeker's Indo-Pacific Elopoid and Clupeoid Fishes". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 84: 1–152.

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