Frans Vermeulen: Killi-Data (sad) alert to members
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. (Emph. mine - rjs)
Two killifish species were dedicated to him :
Aphyosemion (Diapteron) seegersi Huber, 1978
Nothobranchius seegersi Valdesalici & Kardashev, 2011
Jean Huber
Note: this report may be distributed freely and widely in memory of his contribution to killifish knowledge.
Thanks to Harro Hieronimus and Jouke van der Zee for helping gathering information.
Best regards, Jean
