Maria Luisa Fuster de Plaza

María Luisa Fuster de Plaza (born August 16, 1919 in Punta Alta ; died 1965 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine ichthyologist .

Life

Fuster received his PhD in natural sciences in 1944 under Professor Emiliano Mac Donagh at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata . Her dissertation dealt with the biology of the Dourado ( Contribución al conocimiento del dorado Salminus maxillosus - Contributions to the knowledge of the Dourado Salminus maxillosus ). Until 1952 Fuster worked in the General Directorate for Fisheries of the Argentine Ministry of Agriculture and in research facilities for aquaculture in San Carlos de Bariloche in the province of Río Negro and in Plottier in the province of Neuquén . During these years she wrote a number of scientific publications on the breeding of various edible fish.

In 1953 Fuster returned to Buenos Aires to research the indigenous anchovies , especially the Argentine anchovy ( Engraulis anchoita ), in a group of ichthyologists at the Ministry of Agriculture . From 1960 to 1961 Fuster carried out fishery biology studies in Spain.

With her colleague Alberto Nani , she wrote the first description of Hypophthalmus oremaculatus in 1947 , an economically important species of aerial catfish that is widespread in large parts of South America .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Enrique E. Boschi: Necrologia. Maria Luisa Fuster de Plaza . In: Physis. Revista de la Asociacion Argentina de Ciencias Naturales 1965, Volume XXV, No. 69, pp. 133-134, digitized .
↑ Alberto Nani, Mara Luisa Fuster de Plaza (1947): Hypophthalmus oremaculatus una nueva especie del orden Nematognathi (Pisces, Hypophthal.) . Comunicaciones del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" , Volume 2, Pages 1-9, ZDB -ID 27350-8 .

personal data
SURNAME	Fuster de Plaza, Maria Luisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fuster, María Luisa (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentine ichthyologist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 16, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Punta Alta , Argentina
DATE OF DEATH	1965
Place of death	Buenos Aires

[eeb-1] Enrique E. Boschi: Necrologia. Maria Luisa Fuster de Plaza . In: Physis. Revista de la Asociacion Argentina de Ciencias Naturales 1965, Volume XXV, No. 69, pp. 133-134, digitized .

[2] Alberto Nani, Mara Luisa Fuster de Plaza (1947): Hypophthalmus oremaculatus una nueva especie del orden Nematognathi (Pisces, Hypophthal.) . Comunicaciones del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" , Volume 2, Pages 1-9, ZDB -ID 27350-8 .