Biography

Osvaldo Alfredo Reig Barutta, Argentine zoologist and paleontologist (Buenos Aires 14 August 1929 – Buenos Aires 13 March 1992)

DESCRIBED VERTEBRATA TAXA

SUPRAGENERIC

16 taxonomic hierarchies one of them being the subfamily Tylomyinae 1984 of living mammals

FOSSIL GENERA

Amphibia

Chacophrys 1963 with Limeses

Saltenia 1959

Vieraella 1961

Reptilia

Herrerasaurus 1963

Ischisaurus 1963

Proterochampsa 1959

Saurosuchus 1959

Triassolestes 1963

Mammalia

Abalosia 1991 with Quintana

Chasicostylus 1957

Cholomys 1980

Dankomys 1978

Pliolestes 1955

Stipanicicia 1956 

Thylatheridium 1952

Thylophorops 1952

Species

About 40 living and fossil species

HONORS (Fossil Mammalia)

Reigechimys Verzi, Vucetich & Montalvo 1994

Reigia Pascual 1983

Reigitherium Bonaparte 1990

LINKS

HTTP://www.fundacionazara.org.ar/Publicaciones/Arandu/REIG.pdf