Kittipong Jaruthanin

Kittipong Jaruthanin (Thai: กิตติพงษ์ จารุธาณินทร์ or spelt Kittipong Jarutanin; born 1958 in Din Daeng District, Bangkok) is a Thai nature explorer, collector, aquarist, aquarium trader and ichthyologist. Although he did not graduate in science or biology. However, he is considered one of Thailand's leading freshwater fish specialists, he took on the alias "river fishes tycoon" and "Indiana Jones Thailand".[1]

Jaruthanin has been interested in freshwater fish since childhood and working with freshwater fish collection since 1975 and started serious in 1982 with paradise threadfin (Polynemus paradiseus) fishing at mouth of Bangkok Noi Canal near Phra Pin-klao Bridge. Up until now he continues to explore nature and rivers throughout every region of Thailand and neighboring countries such as Mekong, Mae Klong, Salween, Chao Phraya Basins or Sirindhorn peat swamp forest, the largest peat swamp forest in Thailand etc. He is the discoverer and colleague holotype of freshwater fish, including various species of aquatic animals, to study and taxonomy as many new species of the world such as giant freshwater stingray (Himantura chaophraya), thinlip barb (Probarbus labeaminor), Schistura jarutanini, S. kaysonei or roughback whipray (Himantura kittipongi) and Burmese narrow-headed softshell turtle (Chitra vandijki) etc. He stated that in Burmese narrow-headed softshell turtle case the scientific name he proposed was delayed. It only became synonymous.[2]

In addition, he is also the special author of many aquarium magazines in Thailand and he is also the owner of an aquarium shop, focus on wild caught fishes at the Sunday Market, a part of Chatuchak Weekend Market called "Mae Nam" (แม่น้ำ; lit: "river") and also, at his home in Thawi Watthana District, suburb Bangkok. It is a small zoo called "Home Zoo", collected exotic pets and rare many species such as capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris), flamingos, Asian narrow-headed softshell turtle (Chitra chitra), Malaysian giant turtle (Orlitia borneensis), albino elephant trunk snake (Acrochordus javanicus), Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri), Lyle's flying fox (Pteropus lylei), Chinese water dragon (Physignathus cocincinus) including coco de mer (Lodoicea maldivica) before 2011 great floods as well.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "แกะกล้า ตอน Indiana Jones Thailand". Amarin TV (in Thai). 2016-05-19. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
  2. ↑ Kittipong Jaruthanin, กริวดาว... เสียดาย! สูญพันธุ์ตั้งแต่ยังไม่ได้เกิด (The Extinct Narrow-Headed Softshell Turtle) นิตยสาร Aquarium Biz Vol.1 Issue 11 (May 2011) Thai: ภาษาไทย
  3. ↑ Kittipong Jaruthanin, เปิดตำนานเจ้าพ่อปลาแม่น้ำ "กิตติพงษ์ จารุธาณินทร์" (Interviews with River Legendary "Kittipong Jaruthanin"), Aquarium Biz, Vol. 1 Issue 2 (August 2010) Thai: ภาษาไทย
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