Wade Cara Wade Aquarist of some renown in the Texas region of the United states. Weber Dale Weber, BAKA founder, AKA Auctioneer, 19?? - 1997 From: "The Species Seekers" By Richard Coniff: " Weber, Dale (19??-1997), an American ichthyologist, killed in a car accident in Brazil, age unknown, who made numerous trips to Panama, Venezuela, and Brazil to study and collect killifish species. He died, a friend reports, “when his car swerved off a mountain road in Brazil to avoid an oncoming bus. His son, 19, was with him in the car and escaped unharmed but Dale was trapped upside down and drowned in a river full of killifish in the middle of the Brazilian Amazon.” " Rivulus weberi is named for him. Weitzman Stanly Weitzman One of the "great four" ichthyologists who revised the telosts with Greenwood, Rosen and Myers. See: "Greenwood, Rosen, Weitzman, and Myers: Circumstances Surrounding the Publication of "Phyletic Studies of Teleostean Fishes, with a Provisional Classification of Living Forms," 1966 by Theodore W. Pietsch https://www.jstor.org/stable/41416579 See also: Copeia 2007(4):1030-1045. 2007 http://doi.org/10.1643/0045-8511(2007)7[1030:SAMW]2.0.CO;2 "STANLEY AND MARILYN WEITZMAN" Lynn Parenti's obituary of Weitzman. At the Smithsonian. Wheaton Derek Wheaton I saw this name for many years before meetting him online; his reputation preceeed him for the name was aways associated with stunning and far above average quality hotos of North American native fish. In h present day Derek works with the conservation of endangered native fish. On a personal note, my life with fish began fishing blue darters and minnows out of a local creek every change I could get on weekends and sometimes evenings and of course all summer. Derek still does that and I live vicariously through his work, each time reminding me of the joy and wonder of a simple creek ecosystem, every day of the year. Wildekamp Ruud Wildekamp (1945 - 2019) On Sunday (18.08.2019) Ruud Wildekamp passed away, so another stone of the killi hobby has passed away from us. Since the beginning in the 1970s, Ruud published many articles at home and abroad, also regularly in the DKG journal and several books in his book series "A World of Killies". He was not only a very good photographer, but also a gifted artist of killis. These drawings are so detailed that you can distinguish the locations on these. Not only did he insert them in his books and articles, but they were also used by other authors. N. vossleri AHL (long considered synonymous with N. palmqvisti). Many of the new species he has described himself, or as a co-Author, or as a Revision. These works also resulted in two higher level taxa, Aphyobranchius Wildekamp 1977 and Pauciradius Wildekamp & Zee 2005 He has described the following species: Aphyosemion volcanum RADDA & WILDEKAMP 1977 Aplocheilichthys omoculatus WILDEKAMP 1977 Aplocheilichthys usanguensis WILDEKAMP 1977 Nothobranchius janpapi WILDEKAMP 1977 Nothobranchius lourensi WILDEKAMP 1977 Nothobranchius steinforti WILDEKAMP 1977 Nothobranchius malaissei WILDEKAMP 1978 Nothobranchius polli WILDEKAMP 1978 Nothobranchius seymoensi WILDEKAMP 1978 Nothobranchius foerschi WILDEKAMP & BERKENKAMP 1979 Nothobranchius jubbi WILDEKAMP & BERKENKAMP 1979 Nothobranchius jubbi interruptus WILDEKAMP & BERKENKAMP 1979 Nothobranchius elongatus WILDEKAMP 1982 Nothobranchius kafuensis WILDEKAMP & ROSENSTOCK 1989 Nothobranchius bojiensis WILDEKAMP & HAAS 1992 Nothobranchius fasciatus WILDEKAMP & HAAS 1992 Nothobranchius willerti WILDEKAMP 1992 Fundulopanchax powelli ZEE & WILDEKAMP 1994 Nothobranchius ugandensis WILDEKAMP 1995 Nothobranchius albimarginatus WATTERS, WILDEKAMP & COOPER 1998 Nothobranchius annectens Watters, Wildekamp & Cooper 1998 Nothobranchius flammicomantis WILDEKAMP, WATTERS & SAINTHOUSE 1998 Nothobranchius geminus WILDEKAMP, WATTERS & SAINTHOUSE 2002 Nothobranchius kilomberoensis WILDEKAMP, WATTERS & SAINTHOUSE 2002 Aphanius villwocki HRBEK & WILDEKAMP 2003 Nothobranchius Hassoni Valdesalici & Wildekamp 2004 Poropanchax stigmatopygus WILDEKAMP & MALUMBRES 2004 Nothobranchius Rosenstocki Valdesalici & Wildekamp 2005 In Honor of him, two types of chicken were named after him: of honor to him describe to species: - Aphyosemion wildekampi and Nothobranchius ruudwildekampi - Steffen Fick (translated by R. Sexton)

Wilson Dave Wilson For decades, through his website, Aquagreen, Dave Wilson has been the guy to get Auatralian Fish and Plants from. Mugilogobius wilsoni are Melanotaenia wilsoni are two of his doscoveries and named for him. Windelov Holger Windelov Founder of Tropica Wongso Suwidji Wongso Cryptocoryne specialist Wood Trevor Wood ? - September 6 2020 - Nothobranchius collector. "I am so sad to hear about the passing of my good friend Trevor. What a shock. I have so many happy memories of being in his company on numerous Notho field trips in southern Africa. As someone else mentioned above - he was a true gentleman and good friend." - Brian Watters The loss of his favorite, N. pienaari MOZ 99-9, is now all the sadder. This is very sad news." - Tyrone Genade