Leonard Compagno

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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.

Contents 1 Career 2 Selected bibliography 3 References 4 See also

[edit] 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]

[edit] 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). Princeton Field Guide: ISBN 978-0-69112-072-0. Collins Field Guide: ISBN 978-0-00713-610-0. 2005.

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.iziko.org.za/nh/research/src/index.html Shark Research Centre Iziko Museums,Cape Town

[edit] See also

Full list of publications while at SRC