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International Journal of Zoology and Animal Biology Research Article 8 min read

A Tribute to Some Researcher

Mauricio O Zamponi*
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ISSN: 2639-216X  10.23880/izab-16000648  Received: January 21, 2025  Published: February 12, 2025
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Memoriam Cnidarians Biology Research
Abstract

This short contribution is only in memoriam for that researcher that through a long time of his own life dedicated to study and gave to known too about the taxonomy, ecology, biology reproductive and distribution of cnidarians group and their contributions are a source of data and information for new generation.

Introduction

It is a Memorial to Coelenterate Biology Researcher whose were known by the author. It is very possible some of them is not cited here because the author do not have news about passed away of some of them; in this case my sincere apology. The different researcher were arrange for country and in each country they were ordinate by alphabetic order and for last the countries are ordinate by alphabetic order too [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. Each Senior Researcher were important in their respective country because each one development a new line of research or this line settled new knowledge on coelenterate biology [6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25].

Results

This results belongs to South America, North America and Europe [7, 8].

South America

Argentine

  • Dr. Blanco, Olga: Natural Museum La Plata. Invertebrates Division. (UNLP). Research: Taxonomy of Coelenterate Hydrozoa from Antarctic [3, 4].
  • Lic. Dioni, Walther: Faculty of Exacts. and Natural Sciencies (UBA). Research: Coelenterate of fresh water, specially Hydra [13, 14].
  • Dr. Excoffon, Adriana. C.: Biology Cnidarian Laboratory. Department of Marine Sciences. Faculty of Exacts. and Natural Sciencies. (U N M d P). Research: Taxonomy and reproductive biology of sea anemones (Actiniaria) from South Atlantic Ocean and another places [16].
  • Dr. Mianzan, Hermes.O. Laboratory of Zooplankton. National Institute of Fisheries. Research: Scyphozoa like a fisheries recourse: distribution, taxonomy and feeding [19, 23].
  • Dr. Ramirez, Fernando,C. Laboratory of Zooplankton. National Institute of Fisheries. Research: Hydromedusae: distribution, biology and another zooplantonic recourse [19].

Brazil

  • Dr. da Costa Belém, María J. Universidade Federal do Rio do Janeiro. Research: Taxonomy of sea anemones (Actiniaria) from littoral of South Atlantic Ocean [16, 24].
  • Dr. Schlenz, Erika. Department of Zoology. Instituto de Biociencias. Universidade de Sao Paulo. Research: Taxonomy

of sea anemones (Actiniaria) and Corallimorpharia from littoral of South Atlantic Ocean [16, 24].

North America

Canada

  • Dr. Arai, Mary A. Pacific Biological Station. Nanaimo, Victoria Island, British Columbia. Research:Taxonomy and life cycle of polyps-medusa from Hydrozoa.
  • Dr. Calder, Dale. University of Ontario. Toronto. Research: Taxonomy of hydrozoan polyps.
  • Dr. Chia, F. Shiang. Biological Building of Alberta University. Edmonton. During 1979 was Chairman of Biological Building. Research: Reproductive biology of sea anemones (Actiniaria).
  • Dr. Spencer, Andrew. During a long time Andy works at Biological Building of Alberta University. Edmonton and lately he was director of Bamfield Marine Station (now the Bamfield Marine Station Sciences Centre), Bamfield, Victoria Island, British Columbia. Research: Cnidarians nervous system.
  • Dr. Ross, Donald M. Donald was the first Dean of Biological Building of Alberta University and lately he was Emeritous Prof. Research: Behaviour between sea anemones (Actiniaria) and another organisms such as crustaceans and mollusk. This studies was employed like taxonomy tools. United Stated of America
  • Dr. Fautin, Daphne. University of Kansas. Research: Taxonomy of sea anemones (Actiniaria). Daphne done an enormous work with sea anemones from different oceans of the world and she done a catalogue with the most species published by other authors and by herself too.

Europe

England

  • Dr. Cornelius, Paul. Natural History Museum. London. Research: Taxonomy of polyps of Hydrozoa. Paul wrote two books (part 1 and part 2) published by library of the Museum on references to the morphology of different polyps and some of them are included the respective medusa; other studied were the genus of Scyphomedusae and Cubozoa too.
  • Mayor England, K. W. University of Reading. Reading. Research: Nematocysts, especially from sea anemone (Actiniaria) and he made a classification of them based on their morphology. This classification is useful now for the specialist on sea anemone.
  • Dr. Robson, Elaine. University of Reading. Reading. Research: Elaine was a woman very interesting on all aspect of biology of cnidarians and her work was centrally on different aspects of neurobiology transmitting, when she begun study with Dr. Pantin.

Italy

• Dr. Cicogna, Fabio. Stazione Biologique of Ischia Island. Research: Polyps, his biology and distribution. Fabio was a gentleman and he likes to much the public relations, so it is very joyful to talk with him.

The Netherlands

• Dr. Den Hartog, J. C. Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum. Leiden.Research: Taxonomy and nematocysts of Ceriantharia. Dr. Den Hartog employed a new system of classification of nematocysts and this system is useful when this order is studying.

Russia

• Dr. Stepajants, S. Zoological Institute. Russian Academy of Sciences. St. Petersburg. Research: Medusozoa: life cycle and taxonomy.

Relationship between Researchers

There are several diagram of flux between different researchers because some of them had relationship from point of view academic or laboring. This diagram is show here: Ramirez (DDT)____Zamponi (DDT)____ Mianzan + Excoffon Schlenz (DDT)____Costa Belem (JDT)___ Excoffon Dr. George Mackie (DDT)_Spencer (1) Ross (DPDF from ERCC)__Zamponi (2) Both of doctors (Mackie and Ross) during summer 1979 at Bamfield Marine Station given the course Marine Invertebrate Zoology for advanced students and the author of this contribution take it for his Post Doctoral Fellowship. Dr. Cadet Hand (Passed away a long time ago) (DDT)___Fautin References: DDT: Director Doctoral Thesis. JDT: Jury of Doctoal Thesis. DPDF: Director Post-doctoral Fellowship ERCC: Engineering Research Council of Canada. (1)and (2): They were friend for a long time Dr. Genzano (actually has his own fellowship at Faculty of Exacts. and Natural Sciences, U N M d P) a long time ago he had a stay to Dr. Blanco laboratory for learning taxonomy and morphology of hydrozoans polyps.

Lately Dr. Cornelius was in Argentina and he with Dr. Mianzan were to Cnidarians Biology Laboratory (U N M d P) for meeting with Zamponi and Drs. Acuña , Excoffon, Genzano and Perez. So this flux let us can to see how different researcher exchange ideas between them and it let to do best researchs.

Discussion

On this section there are nothing to say because it is “in memory” to a group of people whose loved your profession and they were very serious like professional and nothing egoist because everybody in their respective level to teach to another in the Master or Doctoral Thesis, so for all this THANKS FOR EVERYTHING (Figures 1-11).

Figure 1: Drs. Robson, den Hartog, Perez and Fautin.
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Figure 1: Drs. Robson, den Hartog, Perez and Fautin.
Figure 2: Dr. Cornelius.
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Figure 2: Dr. Cornelius.

Picture 1 belongs to Dr.Ramirez and picture 2 belongs to Dr. Mianzan who is stamp up with blue shirt. Both picture 1 & 2 were taken from article published in 2024 by INIDEP in memory to Dr. Ramirez.

Figure 3: Dr. Calder.
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Figure 3: Dr. Calder.
Figure 4: Dr. Spencer.
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Figure 4: Dr. Spencer.
Figure 5: Drs. Stepanjants, Arai and Fautin.
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Figure 5: Drs. Stepanjants, Arai and Fautin.
Figure 6: Dr. Schlenz,Erika.
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Figure 6: Dr. Schlenz,Erika.

It was take on from Buckingham (2010).

Figure 7: Dr. Excoffon, A.C.
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Figure 7: Dr. Excoffon, A.C.
Figure 8: Jury of Doctoral Thesis of Adriana C.Excoffon, between them Drs. Da Costa Belém, Christiansen, Bastida, Deheza and Zamponi.
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Figure 8: Jury of Doctoral Thesis of Adriana C.Excoffon, between them Drs. Da Costa Belém, Christiansen, Bastida, Deheza and Zamponi.
Figure 9: PIC. 3727 belong to Dr.Ramirez
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Figure 9: PIC. 3727 belong to Dr.Ramirez

From picture 9 to 11 were taken on Proc. The 6th International Conference on Coelenterate Biology, 1995. The Netherlands.

Figure 10: Dr.Mianzan.
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Figure 10: Dr.Mianzan.
Figure 11: Dr. da Costa Belém,M.Julia.
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Figure 11: Dr. da Costa Belém,M.Julia.

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  title   = {A Tribute to Some Researcher},
  author  = {Mauricio O Zamponi},
  journal = {International Journal of Zoology and Animal Biology},
  year    = {2025},
  volume  = {8},
  number  = {1},
  doi     = {10.23880/izab-16000648}
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