Enrique Balech Capdeville, Argentine planktologist and oceanographer (Telen, La Pampa 17 August 1912 – Necochea, Buenos Aires 26 August 2007)

From French parents

ACHIEVEMENTS

Described surface currents in southwestern Atlantic based on biogeographic studies of dinoflagellates later confirmed   

Nuevas contribuciones a los esquemas de circulación oceânica frente a La Argentina. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 37(2);159-66, 1965.  

Regarded as a world authority in Dinophyceae

Modified Kofoid’s plate tabulation system

First to recognize heterogeneity of genus Gonyaulax and proved the existence of a sulcus in Podolampas.  

DESCRIBED DINOPHYCEAE/DINOFLAGELLATA TAXA

Families

Protoperidiniaceae 1988

Thecadiniaceae 1956

Genera

Adenoides 1956

Clevea 1948

Ensiculifera 1967

Fragilidinium 1959

Neobursaridium 1941

Oblea 1964

Plagiodinium 1993 with Faust

Prodinophysis 1943

Pseudometacylis 1968

Roscoffia 1956

Schuettiella 1988

Scrippsiella 1959

Stylicauda 1951]

Species

About 210

Subspecies & Varieties

At least 23

HONORS

Honored in genus Balechina Loeblich Jr. & Loeblich III 1968 (Dinophyceae)

LINKS

HTTP://www.obs-vlfr.fr/LOV/aquaparadox/html/PFD/taxonomic%20Monographs/BalechObit.pdf

HTTP://www.inidep.edu.ar/publicaciones/revista/revista_19/inmem_balech.htm