José Luis Castro Aguirre (24 June 1943 – 20 January 2011) was a Mexican ichthyologist. He was a founding member of the Mexican Ichthyological Society and a member of the National System of Investigators who produced around 150 publications, focusing chiefly on the taxonomy, ecology, and biogeography of the fishes of Mexico. His 1978 book Catálogo sistemático de los peces marinos que penetran en aguas continentales de México, con aspectos zoogeográficos y ecológicos ("Systematic catalog of marine fish entering inland waters of Mexico, with zoogeographical and ecological aspects") was the first catalog of estuarine fishes of Mexico. Born in Mexico City, he attended the National School of Biological Sciences at the National Polytechnic Institute (ENCB-IPN) earning a master's degree in 1974 and a PhD in 1986. He worked at the National Fisheries Institute and the Food and Agriculture Organization in the 1960s, and later was professor and researcher at the ENCB-IPN, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM; 1979–1987), the Interdisciplinary Center of Marine Science (CICIMAR; 1976–1979, 1994–2011) and Northeast Center of Biological Research (CIBNOR; 1987–1994). He described around a dozen fish species, including several species of shark. A book of research papers in his honor was produced in 2012,.
Taxon described by him
- The Pacific spoon-nose eel, Echiophis brunneus.
- The Mexican hornshark Heterodontus mexicanus
Taxon named in his honor
- He was posthumously commemorated in the names of the fish species Hypoplectrus castroaguirrei (a hamlet) and Eugerres castroaguirrei (a mojarra).
References
- ^ De La Cruz Agüero, J. (2011). "José Luis Castro Aguirre, mainstay of contemporary ichthyology in Mexico". Journal of Fish Biology. 78 (5): 1291–1293. Bibcode:2011JFBio..78.1291D. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8649.2011.02980.x.
- Smith, Michael Leonard (1980). "Review: Catalogo Sistematico de Los Peces Marinos Que Penetran a Las Aguas Continentales de Mexico con Aspectos Zoogeographicos y Ecologicos". Copeia. 1980 (1): 184. doi:10.2307/1444165. JSTOR 1444165.
- Watkins, Michael; Beolens, Bo (2015). Sharks: An Eponym Dictionary. Pelagic Publishing Ltd. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-78427-037-7.
- Del Moral Flores, Luis Fernando; Martínez Pérez, José Antonio; López, Jonathan Franco; Ramírez Villalobos, Ángeles Jaqueline; Tello Musi, José Luis, eds. (2012). Investigación Ictiológica en México: Temas selectos en Honor al Dr. José Luis Castro Aguirre. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. ISBN 9786070236280.
- Del Moral Flores, L.F.; Tello-Musi, J.L.; Martínez-Pérez, J.A. (2012). "Descripcíon de una nueva especie del género Hypoplectrus (Actinopterigy: Serrandae) del Sistema Arrecifa Veracruzana, suroeste de Golfo de México". Revista de Zoología (in Spanish and English). 22: 1–10.
- Gonzalez-Acosta, Adrian F.; Rodiles-Hernandez, Rocio (2013). "New species of Eugerres from the Usumacinta Province, México and Guatemala with a redescription of E. mexicanus (Steindachner, 1863) (Teleostei: Gerreidae)". Neotropical Ichthyology. 11 (2): 307–318. doi:10.1590/S1679-62252013000200009.
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