title: Åge Vedel Tåning
text: # Åge Vedel Tåning
  
  Åge Vedel Tåning (27 July 1890 – 26 September 1958 in Copenhagen) was a Danish ichthyologist. He was a director of the Carlsberg Laboratory, the Dana collection and the Danish Fisheries Research Station.
  
  ## Taxon named in his honor
  
  * Lanternfish genus Taaningichthys was named in his honour by Rolf Ling Bolin in 1959.
  * The Slopewater lanternfish, Diaphus taaningi Norman, 1930, is a species of lanternfish found in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean.
  
  ## Taxon described by him
  
  * See Category:Taxa named by Åge Vedel Tåning
  