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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1967), American stock car driver David Starr (wrestler) (born 1991), American professional wrestler David Starr Jordan (1851–1931), American ichthyologist...
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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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"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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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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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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Veteran poacher (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
(Podothecus veternus) is a fish in the family Agonidae. It was described by David Starr Jordan and Edwin Chapin Starks in 1895. It is a marine, polar water-dwelling...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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temperature. The rule is named after David Starr Jordan (1851–1931), the father of American ichthyology. Jordan's law (or rule) (sense 2) is also an ecogeographical...
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Memorial Prize, the Albert Wander Prize, the Akira Okubo Prize, the David Starr Jordan Prize and the Henry Dale Prize. Nowak identifies as a Roman Catholic...
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Utah sucker (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
chemical pollutants, and competition with exotic species. In 1881, David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert observed that this sucker "occurs in Utah...
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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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Anchovia (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Clupeiformes Family: Engraulidae Subfamily: Engraulinae Genus: Anchovia D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1895...
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Grunion (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
Atherinopsidae Subfamily: Atherinopsinae Tribe: Atherinopsini Genus: Leuresthes D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1880 Type species Atherinopsis tenuis Ayres, 1860...
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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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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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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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Goblin shark (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
distribution and low incidence of capture. American ichthyologist David Starr Jordan described the goblin shark in an 1898 issue of Proceedings of the...
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Sacura (category Taxa named by David Starr Jordan)
Perciformes Family: Serranidae Subfamily: Anthiinae Genus: Sacura D. S. Jordan & R. E. Richardson, 1910 Type species Anthias margaritaceus Hilgendorf,...
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