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Teodor T. Nalbant

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Teodor T. Nalbant (December 18, 1933 – November 12, 2011) was a Romanian ichthyologist.

Born in Constanţa, near the Black Sea, Nalbant spent some of his childhood among fishermen in the Danube Delta.[1] After finishing high school, he studied biology, first in Cluj, and then at the University of Bucharest.[1] While in Cluj, Nalbant befriended Petre Mihai Bănărescu, who would become a collaborator on many publications.[1] Nalbant published over 150 papers on a variety of subjects in and related to his field.[1] He worked at the Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History and participated in numerous expeditions to regions of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.[1]

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Taxa named for Nalbant include genus Nalbantichtys (Schultz, 1967), subgenus Nalbantius (Mauge and Bauchot, 1984) and species Schistura nalbanti (Mîrza and Bănărescu, 1979) and Cyclaspis nalbanti (Petrescu, 1998).

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  1. ^ a b c d e Modest Guţu, "In memoriam: TEODOR T. NALBANT Archived 2014-02-19 at the Wayback Machine", Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle «Grigore Antipa» (2012), Vol. LV (1) pp. 181–183.
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