Petre Mihai Bănărescu

Petre Mihai Bănărescu, Romanian ichthyologist (1921–2009)

Petre Mihai Bănărescu (born 15 September 1921 in Craiova, Dolj County – died 12 May 2009 in Bucharest) was a Romanian ichthyologist.[1] Bănărescu was a member of the Romanian Academy.[2]

Bănărescu published around 300 papers in scholarly journals.[1] In 1975 he was elected an honorary member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists[3] and an honorary member of the European Society of Ichtyologists in 1988.[1][4]

Education

  • In 1932–1940 attended the C.D. Loga college in Timișoara, where he was taught by ornithologist Dionisie Lintia (natural sciences) and by the micro paleontologist Teodor Iorgulescu (geology, botany and zoology).
  • 1940–1944, the Student of the Faculty of Sciences (Department of Natural Sciences) at the University of Cluj, where in 1949, he had his PhD thesis Research on the telestones encephalus related to the life and phylogeny.
  • In 1962 he received the Doctor of Science Degree.

Fish described

Oxynoemacheilus araxensis

Ancherythroculter daovantieni

Tribute

Squalidus banarescui I. S. Chen & Y. C. Chang 2007 was named in honor of Bănărescu, Institute of Biology, Bucharest, for his "great" contributions to Taiwanese cyprinid taxonomy, especially the subfamily Gobioninae, between 1960 and 1973.[5]

Mesonoemacheilus petrubanarescui (Menon, 1984) was named in his honor.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Acad. Petre Mihai Bănărescu, Ph.D. doc". Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History. Archived from the original on 24 March 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  2. ^ "Membrii Români Ai Academiei Române (1866 – Prezent)" (in Romanian). Romanian Academy. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  3. ^ "Honorary Foreign Members". American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  4. ^ Nalbant, Teodor T. (October 2009). "In memoriam Academician Petre M. Bănărescu (15th of September 1921 – 12th of May 2009" (PDF). Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle "Grigore Antipa". pp. 581–584. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
  5. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Families ACHEILOGNATHIDAE, GOBIONIDAE and TANICHTHYIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  6. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (9 January 2021). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family NEMACHEILIDAE (a-p)". The ETYFish Project. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
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