Pio Fioroni

Pio Fioroni (born May 18, 1933 in Basel , † October 5, 2003 in Muralto ) was a Swiss zoologist . From 1971 to 1998 he was professor and director of the Institute for Special Zoology and Comparative Embryology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

Life

Pio Fioroni grew up in Basel. He was already interested in reptiles as a schoolboy and helped out at Basel Zoo . After studying biology, he received his doctorate in 1961 at the University of Basel on " Pigment and pattern development in the skin of squamous reptiles" under Adolf Portmann , the director of the Zoological Institute at the University of Basel, whose research assistant Fioroni was later. Together they researched the development and reproduction of marine invertebrates ( molluscs ), particularly in the French marine laboratories of Roscoff ( Station biologique de Roscoff ), Banyuls-sur-mer ( Laboratoire de biologie marine de Banyuls-sur-Mer ) and Villefranche (Mediterranean Sea). Together with Esther Sandmeier, the scientific draftsman of Adolf Portmann and his future wife, Fioroni published his research results in 1964 on the nutrition of larvae of the gill snail (Gastropoda) and completed his habilitation in 1966 with the monograph " On the embryogenesis of the digestive tract and the transitory organs of the prosobranchia " which he wrote during his stays at the Laboratoire Arago in Banyuls. In 1968 he became assistant professor at the Basel Zoological Institute and, after research stays at the University of Utrecht , Netherlands, and the University of Cologne, he was appointed full professor and director of the Institute for Special Zoology at the Westf. Wilhelms-Universität Münster in 1971.

research

Fioroni conducted research on the embryonic development and morphology of marine mollusks (mollusks), in particular the prosobranch and cephalopods (Cephalopoda). With his histological and ultrastructural investigations he discovered new aspects in the development of crustaceans ( Crustacea ) and coelenterates . He was particularly interested in the development of the cephalopods and their exceptional position among the molluscs.

During his academic career, Pio Fioroni published almost 150 articles and books. The diversity of the animal species he studied and the breadth of his publications illustrate his great zoological expertise and interest. In the last decade of his marine biology research, he dealt with marine ecotoxicology . In this area of research he and Jörg Oehlmann published important studies on tributyltin-induced imposex and intersex in Prosobranchia and organized the 4th international symposium on the biology of the Littorinidae (periwinkles) in September 1991 together with David Reid under the auspices of the Malacological Society of London ) in the station biologique de Roscoff .

Fonts (selection)

On pigment and pattern development in squamous reptiles, 1961
The egg tooth and the egg tail of reptiles: a summary, 1962
On the morphology of the digestive organs and the larval organs of Fusus (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia), 1968
The developmental types of molluscs: a comparative embryological study, 1971
Large zoological internship - Volume 16, Part 13, 1974 (Pio Fioroni and Gudrun Meister)
Embryology of Loligo vulgaris Lam: common squid, 1974 (Pio Fioroni and Gudrun Meister)
General and Comparative Embryology of Animals: A Textbook, 1987,1992, 2013
Adolf Portmann's early studies of marine life (Adolf Portmann; Anita Brinkmann-Voss, Pio Fioroni, Sigurd von Boletzky), 1997
Invertebrate larvae of marine plankton, 1998

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Thomas Szuwart, Horst Kierdorf, Uwe Kierdorf, Günter Clemen: Ultrastructural aspects of cartilage formation, mineralization, and degeneration during primary antler growth in fallow deer (Dama dama). Annals of Anatomy - Anatomischer Anzeiger, December 1998, accessed on January 3, 2018 (German).
^ The zoological station in Villefranche sur Mer . In: Lotus Prague (ed.): Lotos. Journal of Science . tape 74 , 1926, pp. 53–57 ( PDF on ZOBODAT [accessed March 8, 2020]).
↑ Jörg Öhlmann: Aquatic Ecotoxicology. In: http://www.bio.uni-frankfurt.de . Goethe University Frankfurt, accessed on September 29, 2019 (German).
↑ Eberhard Stroben, Christa Brommel, Jörg Oehlmann, Pio Fioroni: The genital systems of Trivia arctica and Trivia monacha (Prosobranchia, Mesogastropoda) and tributyltin induced imposex 1. Zoological contributions, June 17, 1992, accessed on January 3, 2018 (English) .
↑ Barbar Bauer, Pio Fioroni, Imke Ide, Stefanie Liebe, Jörg Oehlmann, Eberhard Stroben, Burkard Watermann: TBT effects on the female genital system of Littorina littorea: a possible indicator of tributyltin pollution. Hydrobiologia, PJMill & CD McQuaid, 1995, accessed January 3, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Fioroni, Pio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 18, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH	Basel
DATE OF DEATH	October 5, 2003
Place of death	Muralto

[1] Thomas Szuwart, Horst Kierdorf, Uwe Kierdorf, Günter Clemen: Ultrastructural aspects of cartilage formation, mineralization, and degeneration during primary antler growth in fallow deer (Dama dama). Annals of Anatomy - Anatomischer Anzeiger, December 1998, accessed on January 3, 2018 (German).

[2] The zoological station in Villefranche sur Mer . In: Lotus Prague (ed.): Lotos. Journal of Science . tape 74 , 1926, pp. 53–57 ( PDF on ZOBODAT [accessed March 8, 2020]).

[3] Jörg Öhlmann: Aquatic Ecotoxicology. In: http://www.bio.uni-frankfurt.de . Goethe University Frankfurt, accessed on September 29, 2019 (German).

[4] Eberhard Stroben, Christa Brommel, Jörg Oehlmann, Pio Fioroni: The genital systems of Trivia arctica and Trivia monacha (Prosobranchia, Mesogastropoda) and tributyltin induced imposex 1. Zoological contributions, June 17, 1992, accessed on January 3, 2018 (English) .

[5] Barbar Bauer, Pio Fioroni, Imke Ide, Stefanie Liebe, Jörg Oehlmann, Eberhard Stroben, Burkard Watermann: TBT effects on the female genital system of Littorina littorea: a possible indicator of tributyltin pollution. Hydrobiologia, PJMill & CD McQuaid, 1995, accessed January 3, 2018 .