Theodore W. Pietsch

Theodore W. Pietsch is Professor Emeritus in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, and Curator Emeritus of Fishes at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is author of more than 260 scientific and popular articles, including more than a dozen books, that focus primarily on marine ichthyology, especially the biosystematics, distribution, reproductive biology, and behavior of teleost fishes. Prominent among these are "Oceanic Anglerfishes: Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea," published by the University of California Press in 2009; "Fishes of the Salish Sea: Puget Sound and the Straits of Georgia and Juan de Fuca" (three volumes, with James Wilder Orr), University of Washington Press, June 2019; "Frogfishes: Biodiversity, Zoogeography, and Behavorial Ecology," Johns Hopkins University Press, March 2020; and "Ichthyopedia: A Biographical Dictionary of Ichthyologists" (with William D. Anderson), American Philosophical Society, November 2022. He has also published extensively on the history of natural history, most recently "Peter Artedi: Reformer of Eighteenth-Century Zoology" (two volumes, with Hans Aili), Stockholm University Press, 2024-2025.