Dr. Maurice Kottelat (born 1957 in Delémont,[1] Switzerland) is a Swiss ichthyologist.
In 1976 he entered the University of Neuchâtel where he obtained his diploma in 1987.[2] In 1980 he went to Thailand where he began his field research on Southeast Asiatic and Indonesian fresh water fish species.[2] In 1997 he wrote an important revision on the genus Coregonus, which include the fish species from Lake Geneva, Lake Constance and other lakes in Switzerland.[3] Together with Dr. Tan Heok Hui, curator of the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research in Singapore, he worked in Sumatra, where they discovered Paedocypris progenetica, which is considered the smallest fish in the world.[4] In general he described more than 440 fish species.[5]
On November 4, 2006 he obtained the Honorary degree during a Dies academicus celebration at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.[6]
Kottelat is the former president of the European Ichthyological Society.[1]
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