Fahire Battalgil (1902 - 1948) was a Turkish ichthyologist who was one of the first women to be appointed as a professor at a university in Turkey.
[citation needed] From April 1926 to October 1927 Fahire Akim Hanim had a position at the Tercan Vocational School, now part of Erzincan University where she was assigned to the Faculty of Science on 1 June 1927, being appointed as an assistant in the Institute of Zoology in August 1927.
[citation needed] She died on 20 February 1948 in Istanbul and is buried in a family plot in a cemetery in Beşiktaş.
Examples include Alburnus adanensis, Barbus oligolepis, Pseudophoxinus caralis and Squalius cephaloides.
Species named in honour of Battalgil include This is an incomplete list of publications:[citation needed]