LOTHAR SEEGERS
(1947-2018)
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Full name |
Lothar Seegers |
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Place of birth |
Germany |
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Nationality |
German |
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Date of birth |
1947 |
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Profession |
School Teacher; Amateur Ichthyologist |
| EXPEDITIONS | ||
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1981 |
Tanzania (with Gerd Eggers and Christel Kasselmann) |
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1983 |
Tanzania (with Hermann Wischmann) |
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1985 |
Tanzania (with Ruud Wildekamp, Otto Roth and Ine van Dooren) |
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1986/1987 |
Kenya (with Gerd Eggers) |
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1988 (April) |
Uganda (with Uwe Renninger) |
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1988 (December) |
Tanzania (with Bernd Kilian) |
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1989 |
Tanzania (with Bernd Kilian) |
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1990 |
Tanzania |
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1991 |
Tanzania |
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1992 |
Tanzania (with Hans Weidich) |
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1993 |
Tanzania and Zambia |
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1994 |
Tanzania and Kenya |
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1995 |
Tanzania |
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1996 |
Kenya |
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1997 |
Tanzania |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY | ||
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Killifishes of the world: Old World Killis II. A.C.S. GmbH, 1997 Killifishes of the World: New World Killis. A.C.S., 2000 |
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| LECTURES | ||
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| BIOGRAPHY | ||
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German Lothar Seegers passed away on August 6 (born 1947), he described 21 killifish names, including 2 generic names, Diapteron and Paranothobranchius, and studied notably Nothobranchius, lampeyes and Peru fauna {before cichlid and catfish refocus}. A teacher in biology, he was a remarkable fish morphologist, his work culminating in his thesis “The fishes of the Lake Rukwa drainage” in 1996. He was a fine breeding aquarist and photographer, too (having authored the picturial Aqualog series of books) and an expert collector and biologist in East Africa.
His death was only lately noticed by neighbors.
Two killifish species were dedicated to him :
Aphyosemion (Diapteron) seegersi Huber, 1978
Nothobranchius seegersi Valdesalici & Kardashev, 2011
Jean Huber |
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Last update: 23/02/2026
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