Afranio Pompilio Bastos do Amaral, Brazilian herpetologist (Belém 12 January 1894 - São Paulo 29 November 1982) Gained world renown in herpetology and zoological nomenclature Created the term
solenotodont for a kind of maxillary dentition in snakes Reported the first case of necrophilism among snakes in scientific literature Sobre um caso de necrofilia heteróloga na jararaca. Bol. Biol. 1(1):1-2, 1933 DESCRIBED VALID REPTILIA TAXA Genera Leptodrymus 1927 Drymoluber 1929 Uromacerina 1929 Anotosaura 1932 Colobodactylus 1932 Lioheterophis 1934 Mastigodryas 1934 Calamodontophis 1936 Species 46 Subspecies Bothrops neuwiedi
bolivianus 1927 Crotalus durissus collilineatus 1926 Epicrates cenchria polylepis 1935 Erythrolamprus reginae macrosoma 1936 Liophis poecilogyrus amazonicus 1944 Mastigodryas bifossatus striatus 1931 Mastigodryas bifossatus triseriatus 1931 Spilotes pullatus argusiformis 1929 Spillotes pullatus maculatus 1929 Telescopus fallax cyprianus 1927 with Barbour HONORS Genus Amaralia Fowler 1954 (Pisces)
John Scott Award for preparation of antivenins (1927) Invited Professor, Harvard University (1925-8) |
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