Orlando H. Garrido

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Orlando Hilario Garrido Calleja (born March 1, 1931 in Havana ) is a Cuban zoologist and former tennis player . His main research interests are herpetology and ornithology.

Life

Garrido began his career as a professional tennis player with his brother Reynaldo in the 1950s. He played between 1956 and 1961 at the Wimbledon Championships and 1959 at the US Open , but was eliminated in the preliminary rounds. Between 1950 and 1959 Garrido played nine games for the Cuban Davis Cup team . He won four of his 16 singles games, in doubles he won only one of five games. He achieved his greatest success in the final of the Canadian Open in 1959, where he had to admit defeat to his brother in four sets (6: 4, 1: 6, 6: 4, 6: 1).

After the Cuban Revolution he devoted himself to zoology, in particular ornithology and herpetology. In 1962 Garrido was one of the co-founders of the Comisión Nacional para la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba (National Committee of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba). In 1964 the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Cuba was opened, where Garrido worked as a curator until his retirement. Garrido described around 129 new bird and Reptilientaxa, including subspecies of Gundlachvireos ( Vireo gundlachii sanfelipensis and Vireo gundlachii magnus ), the Kubazwergkauzes ( Glaucidium siju turquinense ), the Perlaugenspottdrossel ( Margarops fuscatus klinikowskii ), the Cuban eight Schwalbe ( Antrostomus cubanensis insulaepinorum ) and the Haiti Eight Schwalbe ( Siphonorhis brewsteri gonavensis ). The reptiles described by Garrido include lizards of the genera Anolis and Leiocephalus , snakes of the genera Arrhyton and Tropidophis, and geckos of the genus Sphaerodactylus . In 1968 Garrido was one of the last scientists who could observe the possibly extinct Cuban ivory woodpecker ( Campephilus principalis bairdii ). In 1970, together with Luis Sánchez Varona , he wrote the first scientific description of the San Felipe tree rat ( Mesocapromys sanfelipensis ). In 2000, Garrido, in collaboration with Arturo Kirkconnell, published the book Field Guide to the Birds of Cuba , one of the standard works on Cuban avifauna. His other publications include Patos que anidan en Cuba (Aves-Anatidae) (1967), Catálogo de las Aves de Cuba (1975), Catálogo descriptivo de los anfibios y reptiles de Cuba (1984), The Cuban Lizards of the Genus Sphaerodactylus ( Sauria, Gekkonidae) (1985), Anfibios, reptiles y aves de Cayo Guajaba, Archipiélago de Sabana-Camagüey, Cuba (1986), Conozca Las Rapaces (1992) and A Guide to the Birds of the West Indies (2003).

Dedication names

The Garrido long-tailed hatia ( Mysateles garridoi ), Anolis garridoi and Diploglossus garridoi are named after Garrido .

literature

  • Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals . The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2009, ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9 , pp. 148-149 ( online [accessed February 29, 2016]).

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personal data
SURNAME Garrido, Orlando H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garrido Calleja, Orlando Hilario (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban zoologist and former tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana , Cuba