Leonard J. V. Compagno is 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.
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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[1]
Selected bibliography
- Sharks of the World: An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1984
- Sharks of the Order Carcharhiniformes, Princeton University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-691-08453-X
- Sharks of the World, Leonard Compagno and Sarah Fowler with Marc Dando (illustrations). Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in San Francisco State University (informally referred to as San Francisco State, SF State, State and SFSU) is a public University Cape Town (Kaapstad Xhosa: Ikapa) is the second most populous city in South Africa, forming part of the metropolitan municipality of the Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) The Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) Princeton Field Guide: ISBN 978-0-69112-072-0. Collins Field Guide: ISBN 978-0-00713-610-0. 2005. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
References
- ^ http://www.iziko.org.za/nh/research/src/index.html Shark Research Centre Iziko Museums,Cape Town
See also
Full list of publications while at SRC
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