Biography

Maximiliano Leon Pedro Birabén Losson, Argentine zoologist (Buenos Aires 24 August 1893 – 1977)

DESCRIBED

Described at least 2 genera (Fernandezina 1951 and Neoxyphinus 1954) and 12 species of Arachnida, beyond 1 Crustacea genus (Phallocryptus 1951)

At all at least 31 new species

HONORS

Birabena Drake & Poor 1945 (Hemiptera)

Birabenella Grismado 2010 (Arachnida)

Maxchernes Feio 1960 (Arachnida)

His wife, Maria Isabel Hylton Scott, Argentine malacologist  (full name Maria Isabel Sofia Hylton Scott y Pacheco (Córdoba 16 August 1889 – La Plata 01 September 1990))

DESCRIBED

Mollusca Genera

Cochleornata 1975

Hirtudiscus 1973

Kuschelenia 1951

Paracochlea 1967

Pilsbrylia 1952

Stephadiscus 1981

Ulpia 1955

Described at least 1 family, 47 species and 4 subspecies of Mollusca