Fernando de Buen y Lozano (10 October 1895 – 6 May 1962) was a Spanish
ichthyologist
Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish ( Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of Octobe ...
and
oceanographer. He lived in
Mexico,
Uruguay, and
Chile. In Uruguay, he was the director of the Department of Science at the Oceanography and Fisheries Service as well as Professor of Hydrobiology and Protozoology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He was an honorary foreign member of the
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.
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:Taxa named by Fernando de Buen y Lozano
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1895 births
1962 deaths
Spanish ichthyologists
20th-century Spanish zoologists
Exiles of the Spanish Civil War in Mexico
Exiles of the Spanish Civil War in Uruguay
Exiles of the Spanish Civil War in Chile
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