What's the difference between ichthyologist and ichthyology?

Ichthyologist


Definition:

  • (n.) One versed in, or who studies, ichthyology.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ichthyologists have tended to assume that the ancestor of the potamotrygonids was an Atlantic marine or euryhaline stingray that dispersed into freshwater, presumably during the last marine ingression 3-5 million years ago.

Ichthyology


Definition:

  • (n.) The natural history of fishes; that branch of zoology which relates to fishes, including their structure, classification, and habits.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the course of ichthyological inventory investigations in the main water-course of the Narew River the occurrence of Tracheliastes polycolpus Nordm.

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