Enrique Balech Capdeville, Argentine planktologist and oceanographer (Telen, La Pampa 17 August 1912 – Necochea, Buenos Aires 26 August 2007)
From French parents
ACHIEVEMENTS
Described surface currents in southwestern Atlantic based on biogeographic studies of dinoflagellates later confirmed
Nuevas contribuciones a los esquemas de circulación oceânica frente a La Argentina. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias 37(2);159-66, 1965.
Regarded as a world authority in Dinophyceae
Modified Kofoid’s plate tabulation system
First to recognize heterogeneity of genus Gonyaulax and proved the existence of a sulcus in Podolampas.
DESCRIBED DINOPHYCEAE/DINOFLAGELLATA TAXA
Families
Protoperidiniaceae 1988
Thecadiniaceae 1956
Genera
Adenoides 1956
Clevea 1948
Ensiculifera 1967
Fragilidinium 1959
Neobursaridium 1941
Oblea 1964
Plagiodinium 1993 with Faust
Prodinophysis 1943
Pseudometacylis 1968
Roscoffia 1956
Schuettiella 1988
Scrippsiella 1959
Stylicauda 1951]
Species
About 210
Subspecies & Varieties
At least 23
HONORS
Honored in genus Balechina Loeblich Jr. & Loeblich III 1968 (Dinophyceae)
LINKS
HTTP://www.obs-vlfr.fr/LOV/aquaparadox/html/PFD/taxonomic%20Monographs/BalechObit.pdf
HTTP://www.inidep.edu.ar/publicaciones/revista/revista_19/inmem_balech.htm