Leonard Compagno
{{Short description|American shark ichthyologist}}
Leonard Joseph Victor Compagno (1943-2024) was an international authority on shark taxonomy and the author of many scientific papers and books on the subject, best known of which is his 1984 catalogue of shark species produced for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Compagno was mentioned in the credits of the 1975 film Jaws along with the National Geographic Society.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073195/crazycredits |title=Crazycredits for Jaws (1975) |work=IMDb |publisher=Amazon |access-date=3 December 2011}}
Career
- Ph.D, Stanford University, 1979
- Adjunct professor, San Francisco State University, 1979 to 1985
- Curator of Fishes in the Division of Life Sciences and Head of the Shark Research Centre (SRC), Iziko Museums, Cape Town{{cite web |url=http://www.iziko.org.za/nh/research/src/index.html |title=Iziko natural history research: Shark research centre |access-date=2010-10-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070821133148/http://www.iziko.org.za/nh/research/src/index.html |archive-date=2007-08-21 }} Shark Research Centre Iziko Museums,Cape Town
- Director, Shark Research Institute{{cite web |url=http://www.sharks.org/ |title=Home |website=sharks.org}} (SRI)
Selected bibliography
- Compagno, L.J.V., 1979. Carcharhinoid sharks: morphology, systematics and phylogeny. Unpublished Ph. D. Thesis, Stanford University, 932 p. Available from University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan.{{cite web |url=http://species-identification.org/species.php?species_group=sharks&selected=definitie&menuentry=literatuur&record=Compagno%2C%201979 |title=Compagno, 1979 in "Sharks of the World" |work=Marine Species Identification Portal |publisher=ETI BioInformatics |access-date=3 December 2011}}
- Leonard Compagno, 1984a. FAO species catalogue. Vol. 4. Sharks of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of sharks species known to date. Part 1. Hexanchiformes to Lamniformes. FAO Fish Synop., (125)Vol.4, Pt.1: 249 p. - A copy is available online at [ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/009/ad122e/ad122e00.pdf Fao.org]{{dead link|date=May 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
- Leonard Compagno, 1984b. FAO species catalogue. Vol. 4. Sharks of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. Part 2. Carcharhiniformes. FAO Fish.Synop., (125) Vol.4, Pt.2: 251-655 - A copy is available online at [https://www.fao.org/3/ad123e/ad123e00.htm Fao.org]
- Leonard Compagno, 1988. Sharks of the Order Carcharhiniformes. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 486 pp + 21 Figures, + 35 Plates. {{ISBN|0-691-08453-X}}
- Leonard Compagno, 1999. Checklist of living elasmobranches, p. 471-498. In: W.C. Hamlett, ed. Sharks, skates and rays: the biology of elasmobranchs fishes, Johns Hopkins University Press. Maryland, 515 pp. - A partial copy is available online at [https://books.google.com/books?id=ON-sPP5rowwC Google.books.it]
- Leonard Compagno, 2001. Sharks of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. Vol. 2. Bullhead, mackerel, and carpet sharks (Heterodontiformes, Lamniformes and Orectolobiformes). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No 1, Vol. 2. Roma, FAO. 269 pp. - A copy is available online at [https://www.fao.org/3/x9293e/x9293e00.htm Fao.org]
- Leonard Compagno, Dando M., Fowler S., 2005. A Field Guide to the Sharks of the World. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.,London. 368 pp., 64 colour plates. Princeton Field Guide: {{ISBN|978-0-691-12072-0}}. Collins Field Guide: {{ISBN|978-0-00-713610-0}}.
Taxon described by him
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080829182122/http://www.iziko.org.za/nh/research/src/publicat.html Full list of publications while at SRC]
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Category:American ichthyologists
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