Cesar Ferreira Pinto, Brazilian zoologist and parasitologist (Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul State 02 April 1896 – Rio de Janeiro 28 July 1964)

Authored about 300 works between them Artropodes parasitas e transmissores de doenças (1929-30) with international recognition

With Magarinos Torres demonstrated the mode of eliminating eggs by Schistosoma mansoni in gastrointestinal tube (1945) 

De la présence d’un stigmate respiratoire sur les tarses du Cimex hemipterus, C. lectularius, Pediculus humanus, Haematopinus eurysternus et chez les larves de Triatoma megista. Bol. Biol. 8:115-28, 1927  

METHODS

With A.F. Almeida. Um novo método para profilaxia da esquistossomose mansoni. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 40(3):291-318, 1944

Technica para o estudo das sanguesugas. Scien. Med. 1(1):44-5, 1923

Cesar Pinto technique for mounting of Trematoda and Cestoda specimens

DESCRIBED TAXA

Families

Ozobranchidae 1921 (Hirudinea)

Triatomidae 1931 (Hemiptera)

Genera 

Protozoa

Cariniella 1926

Cruzella 1923 with Faria & Cunha

Fonsecaia 1918

Ichthyobodo 1928

Mitrocystis 1927

Protomagalhaensia 1918 

Hemiptera

Eutriatoma 1926

Neotriatoma 1930

Ornithocoris 1927

Otiodactylus 1927

Diptera

Neivamyia 1930 with Fonseca

Hirudinea

Trachybdella 1920

Nematoda

Bunostomoides 1935

Species

85 species between Protozoa, Hemiptera, Diptera, Hirudinea, Helminths, Acari & Siphonaptera)

HONORS

Pintospora Carini 1944 (Protozoa)

Pintobdella Caballero 1937 (Hirudinea)

Pintonema Travassos 1935 (Nematoda)

Pintomyia Costa Lima 1932 (Diptera)