David Starr Jordan (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was the founding president of Stanford University, serving from 1891 to 1913. He was an ichthyologist...
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Jordan High School, formerly David Starr Jordan High School, is a public comprehensive four-year high school in Los Angeles. Until October 2020, the school...
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NOAAS David Starr Jordan (R444)) was an American fisheries research vessel in commission in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...
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Jordan Downs is a 700-unit public housing apartment complex in Watts, Los Angeles, California, next to David Starr Jordan High School. It consists of...
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1967), American stock car driver David Starr (wrestler) (born 1991), American professional wrestler David Starr Jordan (1851–1931), American ichthyologist...
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Mitsukurina (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
extinct species. The genus was described by American ichthyologist David Starr Jordan in 1898 and named in honour of Kakichi Mitsukuri. †Mitsukurina lineata...
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"dysgenic" is the antonym of "eugenic". In 1915 the term was used by David Starr Jordan to describe the supposed deleterious effects of modern warfare on...
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Palo Alto Unified School District (redirect from David Starr Jordan Middle School)
(including multiple races). Named after Stanford University president David Starr Jordan, Jordan Middle School was founded in 1937. It was closed in 1985 due to...
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Long Beach Unified School District. The school is named in honor of David Starr Jordan, the founding president of Stanford University, a noted educator and...
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Lactoria (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Tetraodontiformes Family: Ostraciidae Genus: Lactoria D. S. Jordan & Fowler, 1902...
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Ulua (fish) (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
Carangiformes Family: Carangidae Subfamily: Caranginae Genus: Ulua (D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1900) Type species Ulua richardsoni (Jordan & Snyder, 1908.)...
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Pygmy sunfish (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
& R. G. Arndt, 1987 (Carolina pygmy sunfish) Elassoma evergladei D. S. Jordan, 1884 (Everglades pygmy sunfish) Elassoma gilberti Snelson, Krabbenhoft...
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Prowfish (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
Scorpaeniformes Family: Zaproridae Jordan and Evermann, 1898 Genus: Zaprora Jordan, 1896 Species: Z. silenus Binomial name Zaprora silenus Jordan, 1896...
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White-edged moray (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
Order: Anguilliformes Family: Muraenidae Genus: Gymnothorax Species: G. verrilli Binomial name Gymnothorax verrilli (D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1883)...
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Ogcocephalidae (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
as a separate family, the Chaunacidae, by the American biologist David Starr Jordan in 1895. Charles Tate Regan placed this family within the division...
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Golden trout (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
In 1892, the California golden trout was originally described by David Starr Jordan, the first President of Stanford University, as Salmo mykiss agua-bonita...
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Brown speckled eel (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
the eastern central Pacific Ocean, around Hawaii. It was first named by Jordan and Evermann in 1903. It is rarely seen in the wild due to its aggressive...
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Rainbow shiner (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
Clade: Pogonichthyinae Genus: Notropis Species: N. chrosomus Binomial name Notropis chrosomus (Jordan, 1877) Synonyms Hybopsis chrosomus Jordan, 1877...
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Bonito (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
Order: Scombriformes Family: Scombridae Subfamily: Scombrinae Tribe: Sardini Jordan and Evermann, 1896 Genera Cybiosarda (Whitley, 1935) Gymnosarda Gill, 1862...
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Rougheye rockfish (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
described as Sebastodes aleutianus in 1898 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann with the type locality given as off Karluk...
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Ocellated moray (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
Actinopterygii Order: Anguilliformes Family: Muraenidae Genus: Gymnothorax Species: G. saxicola Binomial name Gymnothorax saxicola D. S. Jordan & B. M. Davis, 1891...
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Ghost knifefish (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Gymnotiformes Suborder: Sternopygoidei Superfamily: Apteronotoidea Family: Apteronotidae D. S. Jordan, 1923...
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Greenleaf Leavitt; however, it is thought that Wagner, Karl Jordan, and David Starr Jordan played a large role in the formation of allopatric speciation...
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Decorated warbonnet (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
1967). "First Record of the Decorated Warbonnet, Chirolophis Decoratus (Jordan and Snyder 1902), In California Waters" (PDF). California Fish and Game...
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Ronquil (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
first proposed as a family in 1883 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World...
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Fountain darter (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
Species: E. fonticola Binomial name Etheostoma fonticola (D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1886) Synonyms Alvarius fonticola D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1886...
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Valenciennellus (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
Family: Sternoptychidae Subfamily: Maurolicinae Genus: Valenciennellus D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1896 Type species Maurolicus tripunctulatus Esmark, 1871...
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Stone triggerfish (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
Pseudobalistes Species: P. naufragium Binomial name Pseudobalistes naufragium (D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1895) Synonyms Balistes naufragium Jordan & Starks, 1895...
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Spratelloididae (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Clupeiformes Suborder: Clupeoidei Family: Spratelloididae Jordan, 1925 Genera Jenkinsia Spratelloides...
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Mitsukurinidae (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
Mitsukuri who brought the holotype of the only species in this family to David Starr Jordan to be scientifically described. The most distinctive characteristic...
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