Peter Artedi or Petrus Arctaedius was a Swedish naturalist who is known as the "father of ichthyology".
Peter Artedi, a painting by the artist Mary Pinzón, how he might have looked
Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish (Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of October 2016, with approximately 250 new species described each year.
Fish represent approximately 8% of all figurative depictions on Mimbres pottery.
Frontispiece from Ichthyologia, sive Opera Omnia de Piscibus by Peter Artedi
Image: Male whale shark at Georgia Aquarium
Image: Paedocypris progenetica 001