Gilberto Domingo Rodriguez Ramírez, Venezuelan hydrobiologist and carcinologist  (Caracas 12 May 1929 – Caracas 16 May 2004)

Regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on Neotropical freshwater crustaceans  

Authored important works on ecology of estuarine systems

With Humberto Díaz discovered pseudo lungs in crabs of Pseudothelphusidae family (1977)

DESCRIBED CRUSTACEA TAXA

Tribe

Strengerianini 1982

Genera 

Eidocamptophallus 1989 with Hobbs

Epithelphusa 1972 with Smalley

Lobithelphusa 1982

Martiana 1980

Odontothelphusa 1982

Oedothelphusa 1980

Orthothelphusa 1980

Prionothelphusa 1980

Tehuana 1972 with Smalley

Species/Subspecies

82

Plantae

Species

Heliconia aurea 1954

Heliconia nanna 1954

Heliconia schaeferiana 1954

HONORS (Crustacea)

Rodriguezus Campos & Magalhães 2005

Subgenus Rodriguezia Bott 1969