Åge Vedel Tåning

Åge Vedel Tåning (27 July 1890 – 26 September 1958 in Copenhagen) was a Danish ichthyologist.[1] He was a director of the Carlsberg Laboratory, the Dana collection and the Danish Fisheries Research Station.[2][3]

Lanternfish genus Taaningichthys was named in his honour by Rolf Ling Bolin in 1959.[4]

See also
  • Category:Taxa named by Åge Vedel Tåning

References
  1. Nielsen, Niels (1958). "ÅGE VEDEL TÅNING 27. juli 1890—26. september 1958". Danish Journal of Geography. 57. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
  2. "A. Vedel Tåning". Copeia. 1959 (1): 86. 1959. JSTOR 1440125.
  3. Fridriksson, Árni (1959). "Åge Vedel Tåning (1890–1958)". Journal du Conseil. 24 (2): 211–214. doi:10.1093/icesjms/24.2.211.
  4. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (2018). "Order MYCTOPHIFORMES (Lanternfishes)". The ETYFish Project. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
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