Hélio Ferraz de Almeida Camargo (6 June 1922 – 14 July 2006) was a Brazilian
zoologist and
lawyer
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, who primarily worked with
Brazilian birds.
Life
Camargo was born in the city of
Piracicaba,
São Paulo, in 1922, son of Theodureto Leite de Almeida Camargo and Davina Ferraz de Almeida Camargo.
[Nomura, H. (2006) De luto a Ornitologia Brasileira:Faleceu o Dr. Hélio Ferraz de Almeida Camargo (1922-2006). Atualidades Ornitológicas 131.] He studied
Law in the
University of São Paulo, graduating in 1952. However, he was deeply interested in zoology and began working in 1944 as a trainee in the Zoology Department of Secretaria da Agricultura do Estado de São Paulo – which in 1969 became the
Museum of Zoology of the University of São Paulo, being effectivated as biologist in 1946.
Camargo started working with Dr.
Olivério Pinto
Olivério Mário de Oliveira Pinto (11 March 1896 – 13 June 1981) was a Brazilian zoologist and physician.
Life
Born in 1896 in the city of Jaú, state of São Paulo, Brazil, Olivério Pinto was the son of Estevam de Oliveira Pinto and Eudóxia ...
, taking the administration of the bird section of the museum after his retirement. From 1966 to 1979, he was substitute director of the museum, until retiring in 1980, but continued working as the curator of the bird section until 2001.
The bulk of his work was with Brazilian birds diversity, going to field to collect specimens for the museum in various biomes of the country and publishing the results of his observations.
[MZUSP Official Website (in Portuguese) (2013)]
Informações sobre o acervo - Ornitologia
Retrieved 28 January 2017. In 1989 he described, with
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Biography
Grantsau was born in 1928 in ...
, the new amazon species ''
Amazona kawalli
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''.
[Grantsau, R.; Camargo, H. F. A. (1989) Nova espécie de Amazona (Aves, Psittacidae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 49: 1017–1020.] He also worked in the fish section of the museum and during the 1950s he studied spiders, even naming three new Brazilian species: ''
Parawixia inopinata
''Parawixia'' is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by F. O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1904. Most species are found in the Neotropics but one species, '' Parawixia dehaani'', is found in Australasia and tropical Asia as far west as India. ...
'' Camargo, 1951, ''
Wagneriana gavensis
''Wagneriana'' is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by F. O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1904.
Species
it contains twenty-nine species:
*'' Wagneriana acrosomoides'' ( Mello-Leitão, 1939) – Colombia to Brazil
*'' Wagneriana alma'' Lev ...
'' (Camargo, 1951) and ''Tetragnatha soaresi'', which he synonymized as junior synonym of ''
T. longidens'' Mello-Leitão, 1945, in 1953.
In recognition of his work in ornithology, the hummingbird ''Phaethornis ochraceiventris camargoi'' Grantsau, 1988 and the furnarid ''
Heliobletus contaminatus camargoi'' Silva & Stotz, 1992 were named after him.
References
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20th-century Brazilian zoologists
1922 births
2006 deaths