Enrique Balech Capdeville, Argentine planktologist and oceanographer (Telen, La Pampa 17 August 1912 – Necochea, Buenos Aires 26 August 2007) From French parents
ACHIEVEMENTS
Described surface currents in southwestern Atlantic based on biogeographic studies of dinoflagellates later confirmed Nuevas contribuciones a los esquemas de circulación oceânica frente a La Argentina. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 37(2);159-66, 1965.
Regarded as a world authority in Dinophyceae
Modified Kofoid’s plate tabulation system
First to recognize heterogeneity of genus Gonyaulax and proved the existence of a sulcus in Podolampas.
DESCRIBED DINOPHYCEAE/DINOFLAGELLATA TAXA Families Protoperidiniaceae 1988 Thecadiniaceae 1956 Genera Adenoides 1956 Clevea 1948 Ensiculifera 1967 Fragilidinium 1959 Neobursaridium 1941 Oblea 1964 Plagiodinium 1993 with Faust Prodinophysis 1943 Pseudometacylis 1968 Roscoffia 1956 Schuettiella 1988 Scrippsiella 1959 Stylicauda 1951] Species About 210 Subspecies & Varieties At least 23 HONORS
Honored in genus Balechina Loeblich Jr. & Loeblich III 1968 (Dinophyceae)
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