Fang Fang Kullander

Fang Fang Kullander, née Fang Fang, (14 November 1962 – 19 May 2010) was a Swedish-Chinese ichthyologist.

Early life Fang Fang was born on 14 November 1962 in Beijing, her parents were Fang Zongxian and Hang Mingzhen, both geologists. Fang Fang attended primary school in Beijing from 1969 but the family was forced to move to Sanmenxia in Henan and then to Fenghua in Zhejiang, her father's home town, during the Cultural Revolution when her parents' institute was compelled to move out of the capital. She excelled at languages and at writing, her talent for the latter emerging at middle school in Sanmexia.

Education Fang Fang entered the Zhanjiang Fisheries College in Guangdong in 1980 where she majored in the study of freshwater fish, graduating in 1984 with her Bachelor's thesis being about the anatomy of the catfish Clarias lazera. This thesis was awarded the second prize of the Scientific and Technological Advancement by the Chinese Agriculture ministry in 1986. She studied for her postgraduate degree, a M.Sc. at the Department of Biology Hebei University and she obtained her M.Sc. in 1987 her thesis was about the early development of the salmonid Brachymystax lenok. While at Hebei University she worked as a graduate assistant and associate lecturer.

Taxon named in her honor Fang Fang Kullander is commemorated and honoured for her contribution to the knowledge of the freshwater fish fauna of Myanmar in the specific name of the danionin Devario fangae, the first specimens of which were collected by her in Myanmar and she suggested they may be a new species, although it was not formally described as such until 2017. Alburnoides fangfangae, a cyprinid endemic to Albania, was also named in her honour in 2010 as was the monotypic danionin genus from Borneo, Fangfangia in 2011.

Taxon described by her See :Category:Taxa named by Fang Fang Kullander In addition, the following species are among those she described:

Devario maetaengensis (Fang, 1997) Danio kyathit Fang, 1998 Devario apopyris (Fang & Kottelat, 1999) Devario leptos (Fang & Kottelat, 1999) Devario acrostomus (Fang & Kottelat, 1999) Danio roseus Fang & Kottelat, 2000 Danio aesculapii Kullander & Fang, 2009 Danio quagga Kullander, Liao & Fang, 2009 Danio tinwini Kullander & Fang, 2009 Devario xyrops Fang & Kullander, 2009