Biography

Angel Cabrera y Latorre, Spanish-born Argentine zoologist and paleontologist  (Madrid 19 February 1879 – La Plata 07 July 1960)

ACHIEVEMENTS

World authority on mammalogy and zoological nomenclature 

Created the term mastozoology for defining mammalian research (1922)

Formulated the law of ecological incompatibility

DESCRIBED

One genus (Atelocynus 1940), 10 species and 31 subspecies in Living Mammalia (only valid taxa)

The avian subspecie Galerida theklae aguirrei 1922

Fossil Mammalia 

Aspidocalyptus 1939

Brandmayria 1936

Chasicotherium 1931 with Kraglievich

Coscinocercus 1939

Cullinia 1931 with Kraglievich

Elassotherium 1939

Epecuenia 1939

Exaeretodon 1943

Habromeryx 1929

Hemixotodon 1931 with Kraglievich

Lycopsis 1927

Macrauchenidia 1939

Megatheridium 1929

Morenocetus 1926

Notiomastodon 1929

Oreailurus 1940

Paratrigodon 1931 with Kraglievich

Phlyctaenopyga 1944

Phoberodon 1926

Typotheriopsis 1931 with Kraglievich

Other fossil genera

Gyrolepidoides 1944 & Haplospondylus 1927 (Fishes)

Pelorocephalus 1944 (Amphibia)

Aristonectes 1941 (Reptilia) 

Notopamphagopsis 1928 (Orthoptera)

HONORS

Subgenus Cabreramops Ibañez 1980 (Mammalia; Chiroptera)

Genus Angelocabrerus Simpson 1970 (Fossil Mammalia)