Antonio Pineda

For the Civil Air Patrol officer, see Antonio J. Pineda.

Antonio Pineda (1751-1792 in Manila) was a Guatemalan botanist born to Spanish parents. He was coordinator of the biologists, including Thaddäus Haenke and Luis Née, aboard the expedition of Alessandro Malaspina in the Pacific.[1][2][3]

The flowering plant genus Pineda (Salicaceae) is named in his honor.[4]

References

  1. Madulid, D. A. 1982. The life and work of Antonio Pineda, naturalist of the Malaspina Expedition. Arch. Nat. Hist. 11: 43-59.
  2. Higueras Rodríguez, M. D. 1984. Don Antonio Pineda y la Expedición Malaspina. IN: M. D. Higueras Rodríguez (ed.), La Expeditión Malaspina 1789-1794: viaje a América y Oceanía de las corbetas Descubierta y Atrevida, pp. CXXII-CXXX. Ministerio de Cultura--Ministerio de Defensa, Madrid, Spain.
  3. Galera Gómez, A. 1988. La ilustración española y el conocimiento del Nuevo Mundo. Las ciencias naturales en la Expedición Malaspina (1789-1794): la labor científica de Antonio Pineda. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid.
  4. Alford, M. H. 2006. A taxonomic revision of the Andean genus Pineda (Salicaceae). Kew Bulletin 61: 205-214.
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