Candido Simões Ferreira, Brazilian paleontologist and stratigrapher (Ponte Nova, Minas Gerais State 19 March 1921 – Rio de Janeiro 23 September 2013)

DESCRIBED FOSSIL SPECIES

Vertebrates

Ceratodus brasiliensis 1980 with Souza Cunha (Pisces)

Mollusca

Anadara egleri 1964

Bittium praevarum 1970

Chlamys capanamensis 1960

Chlamys coopericellus 1960

Chlamys japericensis 1960

Chlamys tetristriata 1960

Crassinella erichseni 1969 

Leptopecten pirabensis 1960

Ostrea zomerysi  1966 with Marchesini Santos

Pitar diminuta 1964

Potamides woodringi  1964

Turbinella tuberculata  1964

Xancus tuberculatus 1964

With Cunha

Astraea brasiliensis 1957

Atrina pirabensis 1959

Cymatium carlotae 1957

Cypraea macrovoluta 1957

Diodora fortalezensis 1957

Diodora siqueiirai 1957

Divaricella castelensis 1959

Modiolus domingosi 1959

Mytilus canoasensis vidali 1959

Strombus goeldii 1957

Turbinella amazoniana 1957

Turbinella mauryae 1957

Vasum kraatzi 1957

With Coelho

Austrodiscus lopesi 1989

Brachypodella britoi 1971

Bulimulus trindadeae 1971

Carychium sommeri 1971

Strobilops mauryae 1971

Vertigo mezzalirai 1971

With Klein (1979)

Acesta maranhensis 

Brachidontes eoexustus

Neithea nana

HONORS

Candidodon Carvalho & Campos 1988 (Fossil Reptilia)