Our fish collection
With around 35,000 known species,fish are the most diverse group of vertebrates. They colonise almost all aquatic habitats on earth. The research and collection of the ichthyology section of the Museum Koenig in Bonn is dedicated to this diversity.
The research and collection focus on freshwater fish. Research topics range from the documentation of species diversity to the mechanisms of evolutionary processes underlying this diversity. In projects we combine morphological and ecological approaches to understand how fish have adapted to their very different habitats.
The specimen collection of the Ichthyology Section comprises around 140,000 specimens, most of which are preserved in alcohol. The collection serves as evidence of the occurrence of species in space and time, but also as a source of morphological and, in some cases, genetic information. The majority of the specimens are digitised and can be accessed via the digital collection portal.
The Ichthyology Section was founded in 1945. The first curator was Karl Heinz Lüling, followed by Klaus Busse in 1978 and Fabian Herder in 2008.
Related collections
Contact person
PD Dr. Fabian Herder
- Head of Vertebrate Department
- Head of Section Ichthyology
Phone: +49 228 9122 255
E-Mail: f.herder@leibniz-lib.de
Projects
Investigating the genomic and transcriptomic signatures of global change in a marine fish species in space and time
Management: Dr. Christoph Mayer
Provenance research at the Museum Koenig
Management: Dr. André Koch
Publications
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2024/10
Sulawesi stream fish communities depend on connectivity and habitat diversity
Journal of Fish Biology
2024/8
Exkursion in den Kaukasus: Der CaBOL BioBlitz 2022 in Armenien und Georgien
2023/8
Potential contribution of ancient introgression to the evolution of a derived reproductive strategy in ricefishes
Genome biology and evolution, 8, 15
2022/12
Functional morphology of prey capture in stream-dwelling sailfin silversides (Telmatherinidae) based on high-speed video recordings
Zoomorphology, 3-4, 141
2022/12
DNA barcoding unveils a high diversity of caddisflies (Trichoptera) in the Mount Halimun Salak National Park (West Java; Indonesia)
PeerJ, 10
2022/6
A new endemic species of pelvic-brooding ricefish (Beloniformes: Adrianichthyidae: Oryzias) from Lake Kalimpa'a, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Bonn zoological bulletin, 1, 71
2022/3
More non-native fish species than natives, and an invasion of Malawi cichlids, in ancient Lake Poso, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Aquatic Invasions, 1, 17
2022/1
A fish-parasitic isopod (Cymothoidae) on the pachyrhizodont Goulmimichthys roberti from the lower Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) Vallecillo plattenkalk, NE Mexico
Cretaceous Research, 129
2021/12
Complex sexually dimorphic traits shape the parallel evolution of a novel reproductive strategy in Sulawesi ricefishes (Adrianichthyidae)
BMC ecology and evolution, 21
2021/11
Sexual dimorphism in an adaptive radiation: Does intersexual niche differentiation result in ecological character displacement?
Ecology and Evolution, 21, 11
2021/1
Adding DNA barcoding to stream monitoring protocols – What’s the additional value and congruence between morphological and molecular identification approaches?
PloS one, 1, 16
2021/1
On the Challenge to Correctly Identify Rasboras (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Danioninae) Inhabiting the Mesangat Wetlands, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
Diversity, 1, 13
2020/12
Crossing the Weber Line: First record of the Giant Bluetongue Skink Tiliqua gigas (Schneider, 1801) (Squamata: Scincidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia
Bonn zoological Bulletin, 2, 69
2020/8
Do we need the third dimension? Quantifying the effect of the z‐axis in 3D geometric morphometrics based on sailfin silversides (Telmatherinidae)
Journal of Fish Biology, 2, 97
2019/6
Nomorhamphus versicolor, a new species of blunt-nosed halfbeak from a tributary of the Palu River, Sulawesi Tengah (Teleostei: Zenarchopteridae)
Ichthyological exploration of freshwaters, 1105
2019/5
Adding DNA barcoding to stream monitoring protocols: Whats the additional value and congruence between morphological and molecular identification approaches?
PloS one, 16, 1
2019/1
Structure of the andropodium of the viviparous halfbeak genus Nomorhamphus (Atherinomorpha: Beloniformes: Zenarchopteridae), endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia.
The Raffles bulletin of zoology, 67
2018/9
An annotated checklist of the inland fishes of Sulawesi
2018/8
Discriminating European cyprinid specimens by barcode high-resolution melting analysis (Bar-HRM)—A cost efficient and faster way for specimen assignment?
Fisheries Research, 204
2018/6
Alien attack: trophic interactions of flowerhorn cichlids with endemics of ancient Lake Matano (Sulawesi, Indonesia)
Evolutionary ecology research, 5, 19
2016/3
Combining geometric morphometrics with molecular genetics to investigate a putative hybrid complex: a case study with barbels Barbus spp. (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)
Journal of Fish Biology, 3, 88
2016/1
Rugged adaptive landscapes shape a complex, sympatric radiation
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 1822, 283
2015/12
Review of the dwarf Glossogobius lacking head pores from the Malili lakes, Sulawesi, with a discussion of the definition of the genus.
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 63
2015/5
The FREDIE project—different lessons from a large-scale DNA barcoding campaign - Scientific abstracts from the 6th International Barcode of Life Conference / Résumés scientifiques du 6e congrès international « Barcode of Life »
Genome, 5, 58
2015/5
The FREDIE project-different lessons from a large-scale DNA barcoding campaign
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Employees
PD Dr. Fabian Herder
ztm Ichthyology Bonn ScientistPhone: +49 228 9122 255
E-mail: f.herder@leibniz-lib.de
Dipl. Biol. Monique Hölting
ztm Ichthyology BonnPhone: +49 228 9122 440
E-mail: m.hoelting@leibniz-lib.de
Jan Möhring
ztm Ichthyology Bonn Doctoral candidatePhone: +49 228 9122 431
E-mail: j.moehring@leibniz-lib.deLetha Louisiana Wantania
ztm Ichthyology Bonn Doctoral candidatePhone: +49 228 9122 375
E-mail: l.wantania@leibniz-lib.de