Raul Adolfo Ringuelet, Argentine zoologist, biogeographer, hydrobiologist, ecologist and parasitologist (La Plata 10 September 1914 – Puerto Madryn, Chubut Province 29 April 1982)
From French ancestry
Authored 202 scientific works and 8 books
Determined new systems of biological types from benthic fauna
Proposed a character-index for differentiation of specific and infraspecific fishes taxa (1964)
Performed the first studies about heterotrophic ciliates of Antarctica
With L.A. Bulla. Un nuevo artefacto para el muestreo estratificado de plankton en ambientes someros (A new stratified sampler for shallow waters) Physis Sect B 33(87):241-6, 1974
DESCRIBED TAXA
Hirudinea
Families
Cyclobdellidae 1972
Diestecostomatidae 1953
Mesobdellidae 1972
Nesophilaemonidae 1982
Genera
Acritobdella 1978
Adaetobdella 1978
Caribeobdella 1976
Dacnobdella 1978
Gloiobdella 1978
Maiabdella 1980
Orchibdella 1976
Patagoniobdella 1972
Tribothrynobdella 1976
Species
33
Arachnida
Guaranobunus 1954
Protodiasia 1954
Simplicibunus 1953
Species
17
Pisces
Valid Species
Diplomystes cuyanus 1965
Diplomystes mesembrinus 1982
Hyphessobrycon meridionalis 1978 with Miquelarena & Menni
Others
Crustacea
Species
14
Ciliata
Species
2
HONORS
Raulringueletia Zetti 1972 (Fossil Mammalia)
Ringueletium Garcia 1990 (Protozoa)
His wife, Andreina Celeste Marina Bocchino de Ringuelet, vertebrate paleontologist (1915 – 15 April 2001)
DESCRIBED FOSSIL VERTEBRATA GENERA
Mammalia
Borhyaenidium 1963 with Pascual
Microbiotheridion 1953
Pisces
Austrolepidotes 1974
Luisiella 1967
Neosemionotus 1973
Propygidium 1964
HONORS
Ringueletia Reig 1958 (Fossil Mammalia)
Daughter of couple, Adela Emilia Ringulet Bocchino, astrophysicist (La Plata, Buenos Aires Province 27 March 1930 -
Married to astronomer Jorge Sahade
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
With R. Vallverdú, L. Cidale & R. Rohrmann. Atmospheric models of He-peculiar stars: synthetic He I line profiles and absolute visual magnitudes. Astroph. Space Science 352(1):95, 2014
With J. Zorec, M.L. Arías, L. Cidale & R. Venero. Scale height of circumstellar discs in Be stars. Bol. Asoc. Arg. Astron. La Plata 50:169-72, 2007
With A. Cruzado, J. Zorec & A. Vazquez. The Balmer discontinuity as a test for density and temperature distributions in circumstellar envelopes. Bol. Asoc. Arg. Astron. La Plata 50:97-100, 2007
With J. Zorec, M.L. Arías & L. Cidale. Be star disc characteristics near the central object. Astron. Astrophys. 470(1):239-47, 2007
With A. Cruzado & H.O. DiRocco. Analysis of the SiII and SiIII dielectronic processes applied to stellar envelopes. Astrophys. J. 554, 2001
With R. Venero & L. Cidale. Theoretical He II lambda 4686A line profile in the Wind of hot stars. Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrofis. 8:127-9, 1999
With O. Cruzado & H.O. DiRocco. Dielectronic recombination of Mg II in stellar envelopes. Astrophys. J. 503, 1998
With L.S. Cidale. Rigorous treatment of the radiative transfer problem in stellar winds. Significance of the velocity law and the chromosphere in the H-alpha profile. Astrophys. J. 411:874-81, 1993
With M.E. Iglesias. Magnetohydrodynamic flows in Be stars. Variable energy flux and heat input distribution. Astrophys. J. 411:342-50, 1993
With A.C. Rovero. 3 Puppis. A peculiar object with infrared excess. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 266:203, 1993
With H. Chen, J. Sahade & Y. Kondo. Analysis of the velocity law in the wind of the Be star Lambda Pavonis. Astrophys. J. (1990)
With J. Sahade, M. Rovira, Y. Kondo & L. Cidale. The extended atmosphere at the time of the emergence of H-emissions from minimum intensity. Astrophys. J. (1988)
With J. Sahade & N. Rotstein. Variations in the envelope of the shell star HD50845 (1987)
With A. Costa. The behaviour of the atmosphere of Sigma Scorpii. Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrof. 10:293, 1985
Near ultraviolet spectra of a group of early-type stars with Balmer emission. Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc. 192:399-407, 1980
With L. Houziaux. Ecliptic coordinates of selected hot stars (1972)
With J. Sahade. The problem of the determination of the masses in Algol systems, Vistas in Astronomy 12:143-6, 1970
Paschen discontinuity in B stars. Astroph Space Sct 5(4), 1969
With C.O.K. Jaschek. Note on the evolution of the Cepheids. Z. Astrophys. 48:22-7, 1959
With M.L. Arías, J. Zorec & L.S. Cidale. Properties of regions forming the Fe II emission lines in Be stars
Double absorption cores in the shell spectrum of 48 Librae
Spectrophotometry properties of Be stars: the Be shell star
Diagnosis of low density regions through the Fe II line profiles
HONORS
Asteroid 5793 Ringuelet