Biography
Lauro Pereira Travassos Filho, Brazilian entomologist (Rio de Janeiro 07 February 1918 – São Paulo 29 May 1989)
Son of Lauro Travassos
Authored 76 papers
Developed techniques for maintaining and growing arthropods in laboratory
Técnicas gerais seguidas no estudo da ordem Mantodea Burmeister, 1838. Arq. Zool. Est. São Paulo 4(5): 113-56, 1945
Developed techniques for maintaining anatomical pieces
Líquido para preservação das estruturas internas de lepidópteros e demais insetos que habitualmente se montam em alfinetes. Arq. Zool. Est. São Paulo 7(7):439-44, 1950
Proposed employing Armadillidium vulgare (Crustacea) in preparation of vertebrate cranes
With C. Pereira. O emprego de “tatuzinhos”, Oniscidae (Crustacea, Isopoda) na preparação de crânios de vertebrados. Rev. Biol. Hyg. 5(2):67-8, 1934
DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA TAXA
Family
Disschematidae 1951 with L. Travassos
Genera
Romualdisca 1946 with D’Andretta
Lepidoneiva 1940
Metamya 1946
Riccia 1953
Mirandisca 1955
Species
Adelocephala amena 1940
Ecdemus pereirai 1940
Ernassa ignata 1944
Rhipha curicosilvai 1954
Romualdisca dalmeidai 1946
LINKS
http://teste.pc2.com.br/butantan/arquivos/39/PDF/1.pdf (bibliography)
Haroldo Pereira Travassos, Brazilian ichthyologist (Rio de Janeiro 23 March 1922 – Rio de Janeiro 13 June 1977)
Authored 68 scientific works
Modified the Davis-Gore staining method for vertebrate skeletons (1944)
DESCRIBED PISCES TAXA
Living
Valid Species
Apareiodon machrisi 1957
Apareiodon mogiguacuensis 1952
Astyanax saltor 1960
Characidium alipioi 1955
Characidium gomesi 1956
Characidium grajahuensis 1944
Characidium japuhybensis 1949
Characidium lagosantensis 1947
Characidium lanei 1967
Characidium lauroi 1957
Characidium oiticicai 1967
Characidium schubarti 1955
Characidium timbuiense 1946
Characidium vidali 1967
Deuterodon langei 1957
Hyphessobrycon axelrodi 1959
Hyphessobrycon cachimbensis 1964
Hyphessobrycon haraldschultzi 1960
Jupiaba minor 1964
Moenkhausia newtoni 1964
Fossil (with Silva Santos)
Genera
Palaeomyliobatis 1960
Procharax 1956
Rhizolatrus 1960
Species
Carcharhinus ackermani 1969
Curimata mosesi 1955
Diodon ferreirai 1960
Galeocerdo paulinoi 1960
Megacheirodon unicus 1955
Palaeomyliobatis pirabensis 1960
Procharax minor 1956
Rhizolatrus vidalis 1960
Sphaerodus paraensis 1960
Sphyraena cunhai 1960
Sphyraena egleri 1960
HONORS
Haroldopsis Albuquerque 1954 (Diptera)