What is Neoceratodus Forsteri?

[Star-Flog]

I know that Aussie Lungfish = Neoceratodus Forsteri.

But what is meaning of Neoceratodus?
And the meaning of Forsteri?

Just curious of the wording, anyone?

 

[Oddball]

Neo - new and different
Ceratodus - lungfishes having hornlike ridges on the teeth
forsteri - after William Forster.

 

[RedDevilDon2005]

wow, oddball is the fish god

 

[Star-Flog]

Neo - new and different
Ceratodus - lungfishes having hornlike ridges on the teeth
forsteri - after William Forster.

Hi Oddball, thank you indeed. You're the true oddball collector.

Who is William Forster ?

 

[Oddball]

I hope I remember this correctly. In the 1800s, an Australian Museum Director named Gerard Krefft saw a strange fish being prepared for a friend's dinner. Krefft noticed an organ that resembled a single lung. Krefft asked his friend for the fish, studied it, and later formally described the Queensland Lungfish as Neoceratodus forsteri in 1870. The fish was named in honor of his fisherman friend, William Forster whose dinner turned into the discovery of a lifetime.

 

[DarthLungFish]

Wow, Very interesting Fact Oddball! Thanks for Sharing Jedi!

 

[Star-Flog]

I hope I remember this correctly. In the 1800s, an Australian Museum Director named Gerard Krefft saw a strange fish being prepared for a friend's dinner. Krefft noticed an organ that resembled a single lung. Krefft asked his friend for the fish, studied it, and later formally described the Queensland Lungfish as Neoceratodus forsteri in 1870. The fish was named in honor of his fisherman friend, William Forster whose dinner turned into the discovery of a lifetime.

Thank you oddball, now I know exactly the meaning of Neoceratodus Forsteri.