Robert John Lechmere Guppy

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About Robert John Lechmere Guppy

During an oceanic voyage stopover in Trinidad in 1866, John Lechmere Guppy discovered what was to become the most popular tropical aquarium fish of all time, named in his honour later that year as:Girardinus guppii (commonly known as a "Guppy" by Dr. Albert C. Günther, of the Natural History Museum in London, England.