Biography
Aristides Marques da Cunha, Brazilian protozoologist (Rio Grande do Sul State 18 February 1887 – Rio de Janeiro 29 August 1949)
ACHIEVEMENTS
With J. Muniz definitely showed the existence of chromatin in bacteria (Bacillus anthracis)
Studied in details the endomixia in Ciliata (with J. Muniz & G. de Freitas)
Showed that the pandemic flu was a virosis independently
With O. Magalhães & O. Fonseca. Estudos experimentais sobre a influenza pandemica. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 10:174-91, 1918
Discovered American Visceral Leishmaniasis and described Leishmania chagasi
With E. Chagas. Estudos sobre o parasita. In: Leishmaniose Visceral Americana, nova entidade mórbida do homem na América do Sul. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 32:239-337, 1937
Described an antigen for complement fixation reaction in leishmaniases
With E. Dias. Sur la preparation d’un antigene stable pour la reaction de fixation du complement dans les leishmanioses. Compt. Rend. Soc. Biol. 129:991-3, 1938
With E. Dias proposed a serological reaction for visceral and /or cutaneous leishmaniasis in Brasil Medico 53:89-92, 1939
Described many species of Protozoa from freshwater and marine plankton and parasites of mammalian cavities
DESCRIBED PROTOZOA TAXA
Families
Cyathodiniidae 1914
Hallidae 1927
Paraisotrichidae 1927
Genera
Bundleia 1928 with Muniz
Buissonella 1925 with Muniz
Cruzella 1923 with Faria & Pinto
Cyathodinium 1914
Cyathodinioides 1936 with Freitas
Eucamptocerca 1914
Eutreptiella 1913
Hydrochoerella 1925 with Muniz
Paracyathodinium 1944 with Freitas
Protohallia 1927 with Muniz
Protolutzia 1925 with Muniz
Prototapirella 1918
Rhynchodinium 1927 with Penido
Spirorhynchus 1915
Toxodinium 1938 with Muniz
Tritopsylla 1929
Tropidomonas 1915
Species
At least 90 new species
HONORS (Protozoa: Ciliophora)
Cunhaia Hasselmann 1918
Cunhamunizia Ito & Imai 2000