Gregor Michel Cailliet is an American scientist who studies the ecology of marine fishes. He is

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, part of

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, having officially retired in 2009.

Education and career

Cailliet received a B.A. and Ph.D. from

University of California at Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduates and 2,983 graduate students enrolled in 2021–2022. It is part of the U ...

. He is the author of the books ''Fishes: A field and laboratory manual on their structure, identification, and natural history'' () and ''Everyman's Guide to Ecological Living'' (New York, Macmillan: 1971), as well as many journal articles. '' Cladorhiza caillieti'', a carnivorous sponge first described in 2014, is named after him.

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External links

Biography at Moss Landing Marine LaboratoriesBiography at The California State UniversityPublications and citations at Google Scholar
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cailliet, Gregor M. American ecologists American ichthyologists California State University faculty Living people 1943 births University of California, Santa Barbara alumni Place of birth missing (living people)