Henry Darío Agudelo Zamora

Abstract

José Celestino Mutis, mostly known for his contributions in the botanical field, however; made signifi-cant, if little known, scientific additions in fields from mathematics to zoology. In this paper, I present to the public, for the first time, Mutis’ work on ichthyology in the Viceroyalty of New Granada, the colonial Spanish denomination for the northern part of South America that includes the present-day countries of Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador, work that, as Linnaeus himself stated, will immortalize Mutis for future generations.

Keywords

• fish
• royal botanical expedition of the new kingdom of granada
• south americannatural history
• zoology