Lauro Pereira Travassos Filho, Brazilian entomologist (Rio de Janeiro 07 February 1918 – São Paulo 29 May 1989)

Son of Lauro Travassos

Authored 76 papers

Developed techniques for maintaining and growing arthropods in laboratory

Técnicas gerais seguidas no estudo da ordem Mantodea Burmeister, 1838. Arq. Zool. Est. São Paulo 4(5): 113-56, 1945 

Developed techniques for maintaining anatomical pieces

Líquido para preservação das estruturas internas de lepidópteros e demais insetos que habitualmente se montam em alfinetes. Arq. Zool. Est. São Paulo 7(7):439-44, 1950 

Proposed employing Armadillidium vulgare (Crustacea) in preparation of vertebrate cranes

With C. Pereira. O emprego de “tatuzinhos”, Oniscidae (Crustacea, Isopoda) na preparação de crânios de vertebrados. Rev. Biol. Hyg. 5(2):67-8, 1934

DESCRIBED LEPIDOPTERA TAXA

Family

Disschematidae 1951 with L. Travassos

Genera

Romualdisca 1946 with D’Andretta

Lepidoneiva 1940

Metamya 1946

Riccia 1953

Mirandisca 1955

Species 

Adelocephala amena 1940

Ecdemus pereirai 1940

Ernassa ignata 1944

Rhipha curicosilvai 1954

Romualdisca dalmeidai 1946

LINKS

http://teste.pc2.com.br/butantan/arquivos/39/PDF/1.pdf  (bibliography)

Haroldo Pereira Travassos, Brazilian ichthyologist (Rio de Janeiro 23 March 1922 – Rio de Janeiro 13 June 1977)

Authored 68 scientific works

Modified the Davis-Gore staining method for vertebrate skeletons (1944)

DESCRIBED PISCES TAXA

Living

Valid Species

Apareiodon machrisi 1957

Apareiodon mogiguacuensis 1952

Astyanax saltor 1960

Characidium alipioi 1955

Characidium gomesi 1956

Characidium grajahuensis 1944

Characidium japuhybensis 1949

Characidium lagosantensis 1947

Characidium lanei 1967

Characidium lauroi 1957

Characidium oiticicai 1967

Characidium schubarti 1955

Characidium timbuiense 1946

Characidium vidali 1967

Deuterodon langei 1957

Hyphessobrycon axelrodi 1959

Hyphessobrycon cachimbensis 1964

Hyphessobrycon haraldschultzi 1960

Jupiaba minor 1964

Moenkhausia newtoni 1964

Fossil (with Silva Santos)

Genera

Palaeomyliobatis 1960

Procharax 1956

Rhizolatrus 1960

Species

Carcharhinus ackermani 1969

Curimata mosesi 1955  

Diodon ferreirai 1960

Galeocerdo paulinoi 1960

Megacheirodon unicus 1955

Palaeomyliobatis pirabensis 1960

Procharax minor 1956

Rhizolatrus vidalis 1960

Sphaerodus paraensis 1960

Sphyraena cunhai 1960

Sphyraena egleri 1960

HONORS

Haroldopsis Albuquerque 1954 (Diptera)