Alípio de Miranda-Ribeiro
Alípio de Miranda-Ribeiro (21 February 1874,
zoologist
.
From an early age Alípio de Miranda-Ribeiro had a passion for
Buffon into Portuguese. He studied medicine in Rio de Janeiro, and from 1894 worked as a preparator at the National Museum of Brazil
. Here he later served as secretary (from 1899), and director of the department of zoology (from 1929).
During his career he explored the
telegraph through the Amazon and Mato Grosso. In 1911, after visiting museums and fishery
programs in Europe and the United States, he founded a fisheries inspectorate in Brazil, the first official services on fisheries in the nation.
In 1911 he published the highly regarded Fauna brasiliensis-Peixes (Brazilian fishes). He was also the author of numerous works in the field of herpetology.
Taxon named in his honor
- The genus of trematode parasites of amphibians Ribeiroiais named after him.
- The South American catfish Glanidium ribeiroi Haseman, 1911 is named after him.
Taxon described by him
References
- This article is based on a translation of an equivalent article at the ISBN 0-916984-19-2)
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