Teodor T. Nalbant, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Teodor T. Nalbant

Romanian ichthyologist

Date of Birth: 18-Dec-1933

Place of Birth: Constanța, Constanța County, Romania

Date of Death: 12-Nov-2011

Profession: zoologist, ichthyologist

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Teodor T.
Nalbant (December 18, 1933 – November 12, 2011) was a Romanian ichthyologist. Born in Constanta, near the Black Sea, Nalbant spent some of his childhood among fishermen in the Danube Delta.
After finishing high school, he studied biology, first in Cluj, and then at the University of Bucharest.
While in Cluj, Nalbant befriended Petre Mihai Banarescu, who would become a collaborator on many publications.
Nalbant published over 150 papers on a variety of subjects in and related to his field.
He worked at the Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History, and participated in numerous expeditions to regions of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.Taxa named for Nalbant include genus Nalbantichtys (Schultz, 1967), subgenus Nalbantius (Mauge and Bauchot, 1984) and species Schistura nalbanti (Mîrza and Banarescu, 1979) and Cyclaspis nalbanti (Petrescu, 1998).