Lejeune Pacheco Henriques de Oliveira, Brazilian hydrobiologist (São Brás de Suaçui, Minas Gerais State 16 November 1915 – Rio de Janeiro 22 October 1982)
Authored important works about sanitary conditions of fluvial and marine water from Rio de Janeiro
Enunciated law of lagoons concentration under uniform successive renovations
Sobre a lei de concentração das lagunas e sua aplicação no caso da lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 53(2-4):263-76, 1955
Discovered magnetotactic algae
With H. G.P. Lins de Barros, D.M.S. Esquivel & J.A. Danon. Magnetotactic algae. An. Acad. Bras. Ciencias 54:258-9, 1982
Invented devices to collect bottom material, thermometer for water studies, between others
DESCRIBED CRUSTACEA TAXA
Valid Genera
Anelasmopus 1953
Charlesia 1945
Ganchosia 1946
Guanabaraenia 1945
Lahmeyeria 1946
Species
Acartia fariai 1945
Acartia remivagantis 1946
Ampelisca soleata 1954
Anelasmopus kraui 1953
Centropages velificatus 1947
Charlesia darwini 1945
Chthamalus rhizophorae 1940
Cymadus sardenta 1953
Elasmopus fusimanus 1951
Eucalanus saravatae 1945
Ganchosia littoralis 1946
Guanabaraenia jurujubae 1945
Hyale antares 1953
Lahmeyeria turrisphari 1946
Lembos conicurvae 1955
Leptocaris vermiculatus 1957
Libinia bellicosa 1944
Melita lagunae 1953
Melita mangrovi 1953
Oithona canhanhae 1945
Oithona oraemaris 1946
Oithona oswaldocruzi 1945
Oithona sapucaiae 1945
Phoxocephalus capuciatus 1955
Saphirella prowazeki 1945
Scolecithrix ancorarum 1946
Tachidius hydrobiologicus 1945
PATENT
A slide rule to hematological studies (Brazilian patent nº 21682)
A regua de calculo para a hematologia. O Hospital XLI (6):916-29, 1952