ichthyologist

American  

[ik-thee-ahl-uh-jist] / ˌɪk θiˈɑl ə dʒɪst /

noun

plural

ichthyologists

1. a specialist in ichthyology.

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Example Sentences

He said he’d shared the image with an ichthyologist who had identified it as a juvenile king-of-the-salmon, scientifically known as Trachipterus altivelis, which is part of the ribbonfish family.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2026

“I’ve never thought about this before,” adds Prosanta Chakrabarty, an ichthyologist at Louisiana State University.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 20, 2023

Such a case unfolded recently for the ichthyologist Wilson Costa of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, who has long studied the diversity of killifish inhabiting southeastern Brazil's Atlantic Forest.

From Salon • May 31, 2023

In an e-mail to Scientific American, ichthyologist Dahiana Arcila, curator of marine vertebrates at the University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, noted the part played by technology in the discovery.

From Scientific American • Apr. 7, 2023

The botanist finds here about all the plants, shrubs and flowers; the zoologist finds most all the animals and the ornithologist finds most all the birds, while the ichthyologist finds all the fishes.

From Birdseye Views of Far Lands by Nichols, James T. (James Thomas)