Alfredo Barrera Marín
Alfredo Barrera Marín, Mexican entomologist (Merida, Yucatán 11 May 1926 – Merida, Yucatán 03 December 1980) DESCRIBED NEW TAXA Siphonaptera Genera Alloctenus 1966 with Traub Gephyropsylla 1952 Hechtiella 1952 Species Anomiopsyllus traubi 1951 Atyphloceras multidentatus 1963 Cediopsylla tepolita 1966 Ctenophthalmus caballeroi 1960 with Machado-Allison Ctenophthalmus cryptotis 1966 with Traub Ctenophthalmus expansis 1966 with Traub Ctenophthalmus myodosus 1966 with Traub Dactylopsylla megasoma 1954 Foxella macgregori 1953 Hoplopsyllus pectinatus 1966 Hystrichopsylla orophila 1952 Kohlsia pelaezi 1956 Orchopeas howardii 1955 Peromyscopsylla zempoalensis 1954 Phalacropsylla nivalis 1965 Pleochaetis apollinaris 1954 Plusaetis aztecus 1954 Plusaetis ponsi 1955 Plusaetis sibynus 1955 Plusaetis soberoni 1958 Pulex alvarezi 1955 Rhadinopsylla mexicana 1952 Strepsylla dalmati 1955 with Traub Strepsylla machadoi 1963 with Traub Strepsylla schmidti 1955 with Traub Strepsylla villai 1955 with Traub Coleoptera Genera Loberopsyllus 1966 with Martínez Streptopinodes 1968 with Martínez & Machado-Allison Species Amblyopinodes major 1972 with Machado-Allison Amblyopinodes venezolanus 1972 with Machado-Allison Amblyopius bolivari 1960 with Machado-Allison & Muniz Amblyopius delicatus 1968 with Machado-Allison Amblyopius intermedius 1972 with Machado-Allison Amblyopius machadoi 1972 Amblyopius metasternalis 1972 with Machado-Allison Amblyopius proximus 1972 with Machado-Allison Amblyopius trapidoi 1968 with Machado-Allison Amblyopius wenzeli 1968 with Martínez & Machado-Allison Cryptophagus bolivari 1970 with Martínez Megamblyopinus seeversi 1965 with Machado-Allison Mallophaga Geomydoecus coronadoi 1961
Alfonso Bovero
Alfonso Bovero, Italian/Brazilian anatomist (Pecetto Torinese, Piemonte 26 November 1871 – Torino 09 April 1937) ACHIEVEMENTS Authored an unpublished case in medical literature Persistenza della vescicola ombelicale e della circolazione onfalo-mesenterica nel feto uma a termine. Internat. Monatschr. F. Anat. U. Phys. 12:191, 1895. Studied Bovero’s muscle (cutaneo mucous muscle) Richerche morfologiche sul musculus cutaneo-mucosus labii. Memorie della R. Acad. Delle Scienzi di Torino. Tomo LII, 1902. Described interdigastric muscle in his doctoral thesis Concluded that lingual mucosa display individual traits Described a median sagital salience in tongue that named torus lingualis longitudinalis (with Locchi) With R. Locchi. Torus longitudinalis et sulci longitudinales dans La langue humaine. Rev. Biol. Hyg. 3(1):30-32, 1932. Described a pre-hypophysary endocranial ossification in Bradypus known as Bovero’s ossicle. Uma especial e constante ossificação endodural prehypophysaria no gênero Bradypus. Annaes Fac. Med. São Paulo 1, 1926. Described a variety of os sacrum Anotações anatomicas. 2. Uma variedade do osso sacro. 3. Ossificação parcial do ligamento sacrotuberoso. Rev. Med. S. Paulo 16-17:3-12, 1920 First to draw attention to thin innervation of thymus Concluded that sebaceous glands are related to hair follicle Showed the development of uterine glands before birth Established the mechanism of formation and rising time of body glands and uterine cervix in human being (1909) First to describe the infraepithelial glands of cervical mucosa in evolved and newborn fetuses Described new details of osteo palate Described a post-squamous perforating duct until then not seen in humans With Sperino showed the basilar metopic suture as a normal fact Described the role that play the pterygoid in constitution of palatine vault in Brazilian mammals Showed a cartilaginous plaque on the thickness of the conjunctiva’s semilunar fold as a feature of Black people Performed interesting contributions to human and comparative osteology BIBLIOGRAPHY The bibliography of Bovero and his disciples is available in Arquivo de Anatomia e Antropologia 18:519-37, 1937. Bol. Soc. Med. Cir. S. Paulo 21(5-6):175-92, 1937 Arq. Cir. Clin. Exp. São Paulo 1(2):364-95, 1937 Ann. Paul. Med. Cir. S. Paulo 23(1):133-45, 1932
Alexandre Curt Brade
Alexandre Curt Brade, German-born Brazilian botanist (Forst (Lausitz), Brandenburg Province 19 June 1881 – São Paulo 17 July 1971) Authored 86 papers DESCRIBED GENERA Orchidaceae Duckeella 1940 with Campos Porto Pleurothallopsis 1937 with Campos Porto Pseudolaelia 1935 with Campos Porto Pygmaeorchis 1939 Thysanoglossa 1940 with Campos Porto Others Dolichoura 1959 (Melastomataceae) Loricalepis 1938 (Melastomataceae) Magdalenaea 1935 (Scrophulariaceae) Standleya 1932 (Rubiaceae) Described at least 56 new Orchids species from Brazilian flora and discovered 60 new fern plants from Costa Rica HONORS Bradea Standley 1932 (Rubiaceae)
Alexander Bierig
Alexander Bierig, German-born Costa Rican entomologist and painter (Karlsruhe 15 January 1884 – San Jose de Costa Rica 17 May 1963) Worked in Cuba (1919-39) and Costa Rica (1939-63) DESCRIBED COLEOPTERA TAXA Genera Agaribiota 1937 Apteronetes 1933 Argoderus 1933 Brachycantharus 1939 Cylindroxystus 1943 Diaboligenus 1939 Dibelophacis 1933 Dolichoderma 1938 Ehomalolinus 1934 Euremus 1934 Exoctavius 1934 Glenothorax 1937 Guajira 1938 Heteronetes 1933 Indoacylophorus 1938 Labrocharis 1933 Labroporus 1933 Litozoon 1939 Melanetes 1933 Microbrachida 1939 Neoacylophorus 1938 Neobrachychara 1939 Oligotergus 1937 Paracylophorus 1938 Parapalaminus 1943 Platybrathium 1933 Ponticulus 1931 Pterygolaetus 1937 Stenolinus 1937 Stiliphacis 1938 Suniosaurus 1938 Thrichidryas 1939 Torrentomus 1934 Xenaster 1939 Xenasteres 1939 Xenobiota 1938 Xenocharis 1934 Species More than 150 LINKS http://www.caribbeanahigroup.org/genaropdf/1999bierig.pdf (in Spanish with bibliography)
Alberto Leopoldo Barton Thompson
Alberto Leopoldo Barton Thompson, Peruvian bacteriologist of English ancestry (Buenos Aires 18 July 1870 – Lima 25 October 1950) Discovered etiological agent of Carrion disease or Oroya fever in 1905 but published in 1909. Strong et al. confirmed his finding and named the genus Bartonella in his honor. Descripción de elementos endo-globulares hallados en los enfermos de fiebre de verruga. Cronica Medica 26:7-10, 1909. SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY La plaga de los cocales del Departamento de La Libertad. Mem. Est. Exp. La Molina (1929) La lucha contra el paludismo (1927) Disenteria bacilar. Cron. Med. Lima (1915) Un caso de distomatosis pulmonar contraida en el Peru. Cron. Med. 27:142-4, 1910
Alberto Breyer
Alberto Breyer, Argentine entomologist (Buenos Aires 24 March 1890 – Buenos Aires 12 February 1963) Authored over 40 works Described two Lepidoptera genera Sellota 1957 and Tessella 1957 HONORS Breyeriana Orfila 1957 (Lepidoptera)