Nikolai Vasilyevich Parin

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Nikolai Vasilyevich Parin
Николай Васильевич Парин (
Russian Federation
NationalityRussian
Alma materMoscow Institute for Fisheries
AwardsLeo S. Berg Gold Medal and the USSR State Prize
Scientific career
FieldsIchthyology and biogeography
InstitutionsP.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Theses
  • The Flying Fishes Exocoetidae and Oxyporhamphidae  (1961)
  • Ichthyofauna of the Oceanic Epipelagic  (1968)
Doctoral advisorTeodore S. Rass, Anatoly Andriyashev, and G. Lindberg
Author abbrev. (zoology)Parin

Nikolai Vasilyevich Parin (21 November 1932 – 18 April 2012) was a Soviet and Russian ichthyologist, specializing in oceanic pelagic fish. He headed the Laboratory of Oceanic Ichthyofauna at the RAS Institute of Oceanology in Moscow, where he ended his career as a Professor after more than fifty-seven years. In his career, he described more than 150 new taxa of fish and participated in 20 major oceanic expeditions. Thirty-six species of fish are named in his honour.[1]

Personal life

Parin was born in

Stalin in 1953 and rise of Khrushchev, his father was rehabilitated and played a key medical role in the Soviet space program
.

Because of his father's imprisonment, Parin could not study physics at Moscow State University, as he originally had intended and instead studied fisheries in Moscow. He met his wife Olga in 1963 and married her in 1966. He had one son and two grandchildren. His son, Nick Jr., has published a number of papers on fossil fish.[1]

Career

His primary interest was in the taxonomy of oceanic fish, though interests in his long career later expanded to include the fish of the deep-water pelagic and the bottom-dwelling fish of coastal slopes and deep-water uprises.[3]

Parin graduated with honours from the Moscow Institute of Fisheries in 1955 and shortly after began his life-long career at the P. P Shirshov Institute of Oceanology. He worked as a technician on the Vityav in Vladivostok until returning to complete his PhD on

Leo S. Berg Gold Medal in 2000 for his work.[1]

He won the USSR State Prize for his monograph on the Pacific Ocean. He was also elected as foreign member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and as Vice President of the European Ichthyological Society.[3]

Taxon described by him

Taxon named in his honor

References

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  2. ^ "Vasily V. Parin". New Mexico Museum of Space History. Retrieved 2021-07-03.
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  4. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order MYCTOPHIFORMES (Lanternfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  5. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order AULOPIFORMES (Lizardfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
  6. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order GADIFORMES (part 1): Families BREGMACEROTIDAE, PHYCIDAE, GAIDROPSARIDAE, LOTIDAE, GADIDAE, RANICIPITIDAE, MERLUCCIIDAE, EUCLICHTHYIDAE, MURAENOLEPIDIDAE, MELANONIDAE, TRACHYRINCIDAE, MORIDAE, MACRURONIDAE, LYCONIDAE, BATHYGADIDAE and STEINDACHNERIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  7. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order PERCIFORMES (part 4): Suborder SERRANOIDEI: Families SERRANIDAE and ANTHIADIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 30 March 2023.

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