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14-550: Research expedition to Brazil (1865–1866) [REDACTED] This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:   "Thayer Expedition"  –  news   · newspapers   · books   · scholar   · JSTOR ( September 2024 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) The Thayer Expedition

28-3139: A research assistant. Charles Frederick Hartt was a Canadian-American geologist, paleontologist and naturalist who specialized in the geology of Brazil . Herbert Copeland Colonel Bentos Major Cotinho , Brazilian attache of the Expedition. William James Monsieur Bourget Species collected (partial list) [ edit ] [REDACTED] This section needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:   "Thayer Expedition"  –  news   · newspapers   · books   · scholar   · JSTOR ( September 2024 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Hyphessobrycon bentosi Astyanax brevirhinus Eigenmann , 1908 Leporinus agassizii Gymnocoryumbus thayeri Thayeria obliquua Astyanax asymmetricus Astyanax symmetricus Astyanax zonatus Astyanax anterior Astyanax bourgeti Astyanax bimaculatus borealis Astyanax janeiroensis Astyanax goyacensis Astyanax brevirhimus Astyanax giton Astyanax albeolus Astyanax fasciatus parahybae Astyanax scabripinnis intermedius Astyanax multidens Astyanax gracilior Deuterodon pedri Deuterodon parahybae Pristella Psellogrammus Hemigrammus coeruleus Durbin Hemigrammus levis Durbin Hyphessobrycon compressus milleri Durbin Hyphessobrycon serpae Durbin Hyphessobrycon copelandi Durbin Hyphessobrycon panamensis Durbin Hyphessobrycon melazonatus Durbin Moenkhausia latissimus Moenkhausia jamesi Moenkhausia comma Moenkhausia justae Moenkhausia melogrammus Moenkhausia australe Moenkhausia barbouri Moenkhausia dichrourus intermedius Moenkhausia llepidurus latus Moenkhausia llepidurus içae Moenkhausia llepidurus gracilimus Moenkhausia cotinho Moenkhausia ceros Bryconamericus heteresthes Bryconamericus stramineus Bryconamericus boops Bryconamericus breviceps Bryconamericus peruanus ricae Brycochandus durbini Creatochanes gracilis Poptella References [ edit ] ^ " Astyanax brevirhinus Eigenmann, 1908" . www.zoobank.org . International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature . Retrieved 19 July 2023 . ^ "AGASSIZ, Elizabeth Cabot Cary (Dec. 5, 1822-June 27, 1907)". Notable American Women: 1607–1950 . Boston: Harvard University Press, 1971. ^ Eigenmann, Carl H. (1908). "Preliminary descriptions of new genera and species of tetragonopterid characins. (Zoölogical Results of

42-489: A successful banking firm in Boston. When he needed more people, he asked Nathaniel Thayer II to be his business partner, now calling the firm John E. Thayer and Brother. The firm was active in the development of railroads in the western United States, several of which Thayer was a director. The firm was also involved with other enterprises such as manufacturing which required large amounts of capital. Thayer became senior director of

56-437: Is a benthopelagic fish and is often found in creeks and around submerged vegetation. It is an omnivorous fish that feeds on small invertebrates. Ornate tetras are kept in the aquarium hobby. Most individuals in the aquarium trade are bred commercially over collecting them in the wild. They have been sold as bentos tetras, white tip tetras, or false rosy tetras in certain stores. This Characiformes -related article

70-425: Is different from Wikidata Articles needing additional references from September 2024 All articles needing additional references Nathaniel Thayer Jr. He was the son of Nathaniel Thayer I (1769–1840), a Unitarian congregational minister of Lancaster, Massachusetts , and Sarah Parker Toppan, daughter of Christopher Toppan and Sarah Parker. His brother John Eliot Thayer I had been operating

84-534: Is my greatest monument." His granddaughter, Cornelia Van Rensselaer Thayer (b. 1881) married Danish Count Carl Moltke (1869–1935) in 1907. The family lived in that house along with their other two houses, one in Boston and the other in Newport RI called The Edgemere. Elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1866. Hyphessobrycon bentosi Hyphessobrycon bentosi ,

98-622: The Bentos tetra , ornate tetra or candy cane tetra , is a species of characin fish found in sluggish tributaries of the Amazon Basin in Brazil and Peru . Occasionally, it makes its way into the aquarium trade. It has often been confused with the rosy tetra . Named in memory of a Colonel Bentos, who was a volunteer on the Thayer Expedition to Brazil (1865–1866), during which the type specimen

112-747: The Thayer Brazilian expedition.)" . Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College . 52 (6): 96–97 . Retrieved 18 July 2023 . ^ Black, Nina. "MCZ Ichthyology 20905" . mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu . Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology . Retrieved 19 July 2023 . Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thayer_Expedition&oldid=1257173129 " Categories : Exploration of South America 1860s in South America Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

126-423: The botanic garden, and gave much in aid of poor students of the college. He was one of the most generous citizens of Boston. He married Cornelia Paterson Van Rensselaer (1823–1897), daughter of Stephen Van Rensselaer IV , in 1846. Together, they had seven children: Although Nathaniel Thayer II lived in Boston for many years, he always regarded himself as belonging to Lancaster. He is quoted as saying "Lancaster

140-576: The firm on the death of his brother in 1857. He gradually acquired a large fortune. He was known as the “honest banker” because he sold money at the legal rate unlike most, for the time. In 1865 Nathaniel Thayer II retired, sold his business to his partners and lived primarily in The Homestead for “he preferred the woods and fields to the streets and crowds”. He then lived in Lancaster with his wife Cornelia Van Rensselaer Thayer until his death in 1883. He

154-642: The war's final week. Participants [ edit ] Zoologist-geologist Louis Agassiz (1807–1873). He was the leading authority on Brazilian fishes at the time, as leader of the Thayer Expedition (1865–1866) to Brazil. Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz She worked closely with her husband in his scientific research. Specifically, she accompanied him as the main writer and record keeper for the Thayer Expedition to Brazil, from April 1865 to August 1866. American geologist Orestes Saint John (1841–1921). Thayer's son Stephen Van Rensselaer Thayer also joined as

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168-406: Was a fellow of Harvard in 1868-1875, and one of its largest benefactors. He contributed to a commons hall, erected Thayer Hall in 1870 as a memorial of his father and brother, bore the expenses of Louis Agassiz 's 1865-66 expedition to South America (known as the Thayer Expedition ; which his son Stephen Van Rensselaer Thayer also joined as a research assistant), built a fire-proof herbarium at

182-461: Was a scientific endeavor sponsored by Nathaniel Thayer Jr. . It was an ecological and biological expedition undertaken by multiple scientists in 1865 and 1866, and resulted in various type specimens that were later recognized as new species by those that had attended. This expedition took place at the end of the American Civil War , the initial voyage from New York to Rio de Janeiro beginning in

196-468: Was collected. The ornate tetra can grow up to 4 cm (1.6 in). It is silvery pink, and has a dark spot around the gills, which distinguishes it from the rosy tetra. Its dorsal fin is black and has a white tip on it. Males have longer dorsal and anal fins and appear slightly larger than females. The ornate tetra lives in sluggish tributaries of the Amazon River, associated flood plain lakes. It

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