Leonard Compagno

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Leonard Joseph Victor Compagno (* 1943 ) is an American marine biologist and internationally recognized expert in the field of shark taxonomy . He is the author of many scientific publications and books on the subject. He gained fame through the catalog of shark species ( Sharks of the World ), first published in 1984 , which was expanded again and again in the course of the following decades.

Career

Compagno served as curatorial assistant of fishes at Stanford University from 1966 to 1967 . In 1979 he received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He was then from 1979 to 1985 Adjunct Professor at San Francisco State University .

He also worked as a Curator of Fishes at the Iziko Museum in Cape Town , South Africa . In 1987 he was appointed director of the Shark Research Center (SRC) belonging to the museum . He held this position until 2008. He later became Director of the Shark Research Institute (SRI) at Princeton University in New Jersey , and Associate Professor in the Department of Zoology & Botany at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

In addition to his university activities, Compagno has been active as a scientific advisor and author for the main fisheries department of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the Save our Seas Foundation in Geneva since 1977 .

In the course of his academic career, he has published more than 1,000 scientific publications and books. Furthermore, he was at the first describer or co-first describer of more than 50 species , genera and families of the subclass of the slab gill . Compagno is a member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists , the American Elasmobranch Society , the Royal Society of South Africa, and the Oceania Chondrichthyan Society . The species Etmopterus compagnoi from the lantern shark family was named after him in recognition of his services to research into South African sharks. Furthermore, the species Leucoraja compagnoi from the real ray family is named after him.

Compagno, at that time still working at Stanford University, is mentioned in the credits of the 1975 film Jaws .

Bibliography (selection)

  • Carcharhinoid sharks: morphology, systematics and phylogeny . Ed .: Stanford University. 1979 (unpublished PhD thesis ; available from University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan.).
  • Sharks of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalog of sharks species known to date. In: FAO species catalog . tape 4. , 1984 ( PDF; 0.5 MB - Part 1. Hexanchiformes to Lamniformes ).
  • Sharks of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalog of shark species known to date. In: FAO species catalog . tape 4. , 1984 ( PDF; 0.3 MB - Part 2. Carcharhiniformes ).
  • Sharks of the Order Carcharhiniformes . Princeton University Press , Princeton 1988, ISBN 0-691-08453-X .
  • Checklist of living elasmobranches . In: WC Hamlett (Ed.): Sharks, skates and rays: the biology of elasmobranchs fishes . Johns Hopkins University Press , Maryland 1999 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed July 29, 2015]).
  • Sharks of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalog of shark species known to date. In: FAO Species Catalog for Fishery Purposes . tape 2 : Bullhead, mackerel, and carpet sharks (Heterodontiformes, Lamniformes and Orectolobiformes) , no. 1 , 2001, ISSN  1020-8682 ( PDF; 0.3 MB [accessed July 29, 2015]).
  • Leonard Compagno, Marc Dando, Sarah Fowler: Princeton Field Guides: Sharks of the World . Princeton University Press , Princeton and Oxford 2005, ISBN 978-0-691-12072-0 .
  • Leonard Compagno, David A. Ebert, Sarah Fowler, Marc Dando: Sharks of the World - A fully illustrated guide . Wild Nature Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-9573946-0-5 .

literature

  • Michael Watkins, Bo Beolens: Sharks: An Eponym Dictionary (2015, Pelagic Publishing Ltd )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sharks of the World - A fully illustrated guide ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2014, Wild Nature Press @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wildnaturepress.com
  2. ↑ Crazycredits for Jaws (1975). In: IMDb. Amazon, accessed December 3, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Compagno, 1979 in “Sharks of the World”. In: Marine Species Identification Portal. ETI BioInformatics, accessed December 3, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Compagno, Leonard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Compagno, Leonard Joseph Victor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American marine biologist and shark researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1943