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Julio Lamilla
Julio Francisco Lamilla Gómez (1954 – 31 March 2016)[1][2] was a Chilean biologist, researcher and conservationist. Lamilla was a former student of Liceo Armando Robles Rivera in Valdivia before graduating from the Austral University of Chile in Biology and Chemistry in which he majored in Zoology.[3]
He became a teacher and researcher at the university in 1979 and held numerous posts through his life as a conservationist and shark expert.[3] He died of a heart attack in March 2016.[4] Dipturus lamillai, a species of skate first described in 2019, was named in Lamilla's honour.[5]
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- ^ Pequeño-Reyes, Germán; Barría, Claudio (4 October 2022). "Julio Francisco Lamilla Gómez (1954 - 2016)". Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 April 2023.
- ^ "NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC COMMITTEE CELEBRATES ITS 45TH ANNIVERSARY". SHOA. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
- ^ a b "Dr. Julio Lamilla: background and teacher's legacy". Instituto de Formento Pesquero. 1 April 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
- ^ "Pesar en las ciencias del mar por repentina muerte de investigador Dr. Julio Lamilla". Aqua.cl (in Spanish). 31 March 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
- ^ Bauwens, Joe (8 August 2019). "Dipturus lamillai: A new species of Long-snout Skate from the Falkland Islands". Sciency Thoughts. Retrieved 19 March 2020.