Theodore Nicholas Gill (March 21, 1837 – September 25, 1914) was an American ichthyologist, mammalogist, malacologist, and librarian. Born and educated...
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American politician Theodore Fyfe (1875–1945), Scottish architect Théodore Géricault (1791-1824), French Romantic painter Theodore Gill (1837–1914), American...
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present in many primitive eutherians. Eutheria was named in 1872 by Theodore Gill; in 1880, Thomas Henry Huxley defined it to encompass a more broadly...
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Echidna (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
"Tachyglossus aculeatus". Animal Diversity. Retrieved 21 October 2012. Gill, Victoria (19 November 2012). "Are these animals too 'ugly' to be saved?"...
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Manatee (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
Manatees (/ˈmænətiːz/, family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus) are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows....
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Dorosomatidae (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
Actinopterygii Order: Clupeiformes Suborder: Clupeoidei Family: Dorosomatidae Gill, 1861 Genera Amblygaster Anodontostoma Clupanodon Congothrissa Dorosoma Escualosa...
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Electric eel (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
painful shocks, and that it had small pits around the head. In 1864, Theodore Gill moved the electric eel to its own genus, Electrophorus. The name is...
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Hammerhead shark (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
Chondrichthyes Subclass: Elasmobranchii Subdivision: Selachimorpha Order: Carcharhiniformes Family: Sphyrnidae T. N. Gill, 1872 Genera Eusphyra Sphyrna...
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Anchovy (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
they swim. As water passes through the mouth and out the gills, food particles are sieved by gill rakers and transferred into the esophagus. * Type species...
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Trichechidae (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Sirenia Family: Trichechidae Gill 1872 Genera See Text...
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Brevoortia (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Clupeiformes Family: Alosidae Genus: Brevoortia Gill, 1861...
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Catshark (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
Cephaloscyllium T. N. Gill, 1862 Cephalurus Bigelow and Schroeder, 1941 Figaro Whitley, 1928 Galeus Rafinesque, 1810 Halaelurus T. N. Gill, 1862 Haploblepharus...
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Dasyuromorphia (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
Class: Mammalia Infraclass: Marsupialia Clade: Agreodontia Order: Dasyuromorphia Gill, 1872 Families Dasyuridae †Malleodectidae Myrmecobiidae †Thylacinidae...
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Congiopodidae (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
was first formally recognised as a family by the American biologist Theodore Gill in 1889. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the family...
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Machairodontinae (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
Carnivora Suborder: Feliformia Family: Felidae Subfamily: †Machairodontinae Gill, 1872 Subgroups †Homotherini †Machairodontini †Metailurini †Smilodontini...
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Blue acara (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
Andinoacara Species: A. pulcher Binomial name Andinoacara pulcher (T. N. Gill, 1858) Synonyms Cychlasoma pulchrum Gill, 1858 Aequidens pulcher (Gill, 1858)...
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Micromesistius (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Gadiformes Family: Gadidae Genus: Micromesistius T. N. Gill, 1863 Type species Merlangus poutassou Risso, 1827...
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Ellobiusini (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Cricetidae Subfamily: Arvicolinae Tribe: Ellobiusini Gill, 1872...
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Tropical gar (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
Atractosteus Species: A. tropicus Binomial name Atractosteus tropicus T. N. Gill, 1863 Pacific coastal range in yellow (main range inland in river basins...
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Remora (genus) (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
Genus: Remora T. N. Gill, 1862 Type species Remora remora Linnaeus, 1758 Synonyms Pseudoremora Taranetz, 1937 Remilegia T. N. Gill, 1862 Remorina D. S...
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Mobulidae (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
including Archaeomanta, Burnhamia, Eomobula, and Paramobula.[page needed] Theodore Gill (1893). "Families and Subfamilies of Fishes". Memoirs of the National...
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Cetorhinidae (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
shark, Cetorhinus, as well as two extinct genera, Caucasochasma and Keasius. Gill, T.N. (1861). "Catalogue of the fishes of the eastern coast of North America...
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Chalicotheriidae (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
CHALICOTHERES". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 40 (4): 317. ISSN 2096-9899. Gill, Theodore (1872). Arrangement of the Families of Mammals. Smithsonian Miscellaneous...
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Handfish (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
a family, Brachionichthyidae, in 1878 by the American ichthyologist Theodore Gill. The Brachionichthyidae is classified within the suborder Antennarioidei...
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Ceratiidae (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
proposed as a subfamily of Lophiidae in 1861 by the American biologist Theodore Gill, with Ceratias as its only genus. Ceratias had been proposed as a monospecific...
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Frogfish (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
Allenichthys Pietsch, 1984 Echinophryne McCulloch & Waite, 1918 Histiophryne Gill, 1863 Kuiterichthys Pietsch, 1984 Lophiocharon Whitley, 1933 Phyllophryne...
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Dactylopus (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
Actinopterygii Order: Callionymiformes Family: Callionymidae Genus: Dactylopus T. N. Gill, 1859 Type species Callionymus dactylopus Valenciennes 1837...
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Bronze corydoras (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
described as Hoplosoma aeneum (based on a specimen from Trinidad) by Theodore Gill in 1858 and has historically also been referred to as Callichthys aeneus...
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Anomalopidae (category Taxa named by Theodore Gill)
Trachichthyiformes Suborder: Trachichthyoidei Family: Anomalopidae T. N. Gill, 1889 Genera Anomalops Kryptophanaron Parmops Photoblepharon Phthanophaneron...
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species is the type species of the genus Ceratias by monotypy. In 1861 Theodore Gill proposed the monotypic subfamily Ceratiinae of the family Lophiidae...
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