Gregor Cailliet

Gregor Michel Cailliet
Born	1943 ?
Scientific career
Institutions	Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, part of The California State University
Website	ichthyology.mlml.calstate.edu/Cailliet

Gregor Michel Cailliet^[1] is an American scientist who studies the ecology of marine fishes. He is professor emeritus at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, part of The California State University, having officially retired in 2009.

Education and career

Cailliet received a B.A. and Ph.D. from University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author of the books Fishes: A field and laboratory manual on their structure, identification, and natural history (ISBN 0534055567) 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.^[2]

References

1. Watkins, M. & Boelens, B. (2015): Sharks: An Eponym Dictionary. pp. 219. Pelagic Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907807-93-0.
2. Lundsten, Lonny; Reiswig, Henry M.; Austin, William C. (2014). "Four new species of Cladorhizidae (Porifera, Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) from the Northeast Pacific". Zootaxa. 3786 (2): 101–123. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3786.2.1. PMID 24869529.

External links

• Biography at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
• Biography at The California State University Archived 2015-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
• Publications and citations at Google Scholar