Rudie Kuiter
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Rudie Kuiter is an Australia
n underwater photographer, taxonomist
, and marine biologist
. He has described many new species of seahorse
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He was born in the Netherlands
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Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n underwater photographer, taxonomist
Taxonomy
Taxonomy is the science of identifying and naming species, and arranging them into a classification. The field of taxonomy, sometimes referred to as "biological taxonomy", revolves around the description and use of taxonomic units, known as taxa...
, and marine biologist
Marine biology
Marine biology is the scientific study of organisms in the ocean or other marine or brackish bodies of water. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather...
. He has described many new species of seahorse
Seahorse
Seahorses compose the fish genus Hippocampus within the family Syngnathidae, in order Syngnathiformes. Syngnathidae also includes the pipefishes. "Hippocampus" comes from the Ancient Greek hippos meaning "horse" and kampos meaning “sea monster”.There are nearly 50 species of seahorse...
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He was born in the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
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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.