Rudie Hermann Kuiter
Rudie Hermann Kuiter (born 1943) is an Australian underwater photographer, taxonomist, marine biologist and author of many identification guides to sea fishes. He described new species of seahorses in the genus Hippocampus.
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Rudie Hermann Kuiter
- Born
- 1943 · Amersfoort.
- Nationality
- Australia
- Occupation
- photographer · ichthyologist · marine biologist
- Languages
- English
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Rudie Hermann Kuiter (born 1943) is an Australian underwater photographer, taxonomist, marine biologist and author of many identification guides to sea fishes. He described new species of seahorses in the genus Hippocampus.
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Rudie Hermann Kuiter (born 1943) is an ichthyologist, marine biologist and photographer, of Australian nationality. The ichthyologist was born in Amersfoort. Languages used include English.
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Kuiter was born in Amersfoort, Netherlands and emigrated to Australia in 1964.
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Kuiter is best known for his photo-illustrated identification guides to fishes. Some are dedicated to fishes found in certain regions and others are more specialised publications which catalog various sub-groups of fishes.
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1943
Rudie Hermann Kuiter born at Amersfoort.
Publications
• Photo Guide to Fishes of the Maldives by Rudie H. Kuiter • Guide to Sea Fishes of Australia by Rudie H. Kuiter • A Photographic Guide to Sea Fishes of Australia by Rudie H. Kuiter • Fairy and Rainbow Wrasses: A Comprehensive Guide to Selected Labroids by Rudie H. Kuiter • Fishes of South-Eastern Australia by Rudie H. Kuiter • Seahorses, Pipefishes and Their Relatives by Rudie H. Kuiter • Kaiserfische by Rudie H. Kuiter • Coastal Fishes of South-Eastern Australia by Rudie H. Kuiter • Surgeonfishes, Rabbitfishes and Their Relatives: A Comprehensive Guide to Acanthuroidei by Rudie H. Kuiter and Helmut Debelius • Butterflyfishes, Bannerfishes and Their Relatives: A Comprehensive Guide to Chaetodontidae and Microcanthidae by Rudie H. Kuiter • Indonesian Reef Fishes by Kuiter, R.H. & T. Tonozuka. 2001.
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• Multiple fish species and one genus have been named in his honor: the damselfish Amblypomacentrus kuiteri, dragonet Dactylopus kuiteri, deepwater clingfish Kopua kuiteri, wrasse Macropharyngodon kuiteri, weedfish Heteroclinus kuiteri and the frogfish genus Kuiterichthys.
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