Afranio Pompilio Bastos do Amaral, Brazilian herpetologist (Belém 12 January 1894 - São Paulo 29 November 1982)
Gained world renown in herpetology and zoological nomenclature
Created the term solenotodont for a kind of maxillary dentition in snakes
Reported the first case of necrophilism among snakes in scientific literature
Sobre um caso de necrofilia heteróloga na jararaca. Bol. Biol. 1(1):1-2, 1933
DESCRIBED VALID REPTILIA TAXA
Genera
Leptodrymus 1927
Drymoluber 1929
Uromacerina 1929
Anotosaura 1932
Colobodactylus 1932
Lioheterophis 1934
Mastigodryas 1934
Calamodontophis 1936
Species
46
Subspecies
Bothrops neuwiedi bolivianus 1927
Crotalus durissus collilineatus 1926
Epicrates cenchria polylepis 1935
Erythrolamprus reginae macrosoma 1936
Liophis poecilogyrus amazonicus 1944
Mastigodryas bifossatus striatus 1931
Mastigodryas bifossatus triseriatus 1931
Spilotes pullatus argusiformis 1929
Spillotes pullatus maculatus 1929
Telescopus fallax cyprianus 1927 with Barbour
HONORS
Genus Amaralia Fowler 1954 (Pisces)
John Scott Award for preparation of antivenins (1927)
Invited Professor, Harvard University (1925-8)