Cesar Ferreira Pinto, Brazilian zoologist and parasitologist (Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul State 02 April 1896 – Rio de Janeiro 28 July 1964)
Authored about 300 works between them Artropodes parasitas e transmissores de doenças (1929-30) with international recognition
With Magarinos Torres demonstrated the mode of eliminating eggs by Schistosoma mansoni in gastrointestinal tube (1945)
De la présence d'un stigmate respiratoire sur les tarses du Cimex hemipterus, C. lectularius, Pediculus humanus, Haematopinus eurysternus et chez les larves de Triatoma megista. Bol. Biol. 8:115-28, 1927
METHODS
With A.F. Almeida. Um novo método para profilaxia da esquistossomose mansoni. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz 40(3):291-318, 1944
Technica para o estudo das sanguesugas. Scien. Med. 1(1):44-5, 1923
Cesar Pinto technique for mounting of Trematoda and Cestoda specimens
DESCRIBED TAXA
Families
Ozobranchidae 1921 (Hirudinea)
Triatomidae 1931 (Hemiptera)
Genera
Protozoa
Cariniella 1926
Cruzella 1923 with Faria & Cunha
Fonsecaia 1918
Ichthyobodo 1928
Mitrocystis 1927
Protomagalhaensia 1918
Hemiptera
Eutriatoma 1926
Neotriatoma 1930
Ornithocoris 1927
Otiodactylus 1927
Diptera
Neivamyia 1930 with Fonseca
Hirudinea
Trachybdella 1920
Nematoda
Bunostomoides 1935
Species
85 species between Protozoa, Hemiptera, Diptera, Hirudinea, Helminths, Acari & Siphonaptera)
HONORS
Pintospora Carini 1944 (Protozoa)
Pintobdella Caballero 1937 (Hirudinea)
Pintonema Travassos 1935 (Nematoda)
Pintomyia Costa Lima 1932 (Diptera)