Ernest A. Lachner

Ernest Albert Lachner (3 April 1915, New Castle, Pennsylvania – 7 January 1996, Winchester, Virginia) was an American ichthyologist with an international reputation for his research on Indo-Pacific gobies and cardinalfishes.

Biography Lachner graduated with a bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University. While enrolled in college, he went to Mexico and participated in biological and geographical surveys there. By 1939, he worked on New York State ichthyological surveys.

Beginning in 1949, Lachner was employed for 34 years by the Smithsonian Institution as a curator of fishes at the National Museum of Natural History. He retired in 1983 as curator emeritus. He participated in Cruise 4B of the research vessel Anton Bruun. The purpose of the cruise, which lasted from early November to mid-December in 1962, was "to evaluate the relative distribution and abundance of benthic organisms inhabiting the continental shelf and uppoer slope of the Arabian Sea."

Taxon described by him See :Category:Taxa named by Ernest A. Lachner He named Eviota albolineata, commonly called spotted fringefin goby or whitelined eviota.

Taxon named in his honor Lachneratus phasmaticus and at least four other fish species have been named in his honor.

Mesogobio lachneri Bănărescu & Nalbant 1973 was also named after him.

The Goby Sueviota lachneri R. Winterbottom & Hoese, 1988 is named for him.

Death Upon his death he was survived by his widow, Anna Mary Lachner, two daughters, a son, and four grandchildren. Another son died at age 10.

Selected publications