Manuel Jose Biscoito
Museu de História Natural do Funchal/Estação de Biologia Marinha do Funchal · Município do Funchal
Research Interests
Deep-sea Biology Ichthyology
Biography
He started his career in the Funchal Natural History Museum in 1981 as curator and director. Currently he is the Chief of the Science Division of the Municipality of Funchal, as well as member of the board of directors of IMAR – Sea Institute, Portugal and member of the Portuguese Environment and Sustainable Development Council. He is principal curator of the Funchal Natural History Museum and works mostly on deep-sea fish taxonomy, having authored or co-authored 7 books, 31 book chapters and 162 scientific papers. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the scientific magazines Boletim do Museu de História Natural do Funchal and Bocagiana.He is member of the French, Japanese and American Ichthyologic Societies.
Education
Biology Degree, University of Porto
Recent Scopus Publications
- Plastic ingestion by Cory's and Scopoli's shearwaters (Calonectris spp.) from the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea
- Genetic Identity of the Red-legged Partridge (Alectoris rufa, Phasianidae) from the Island of Madeira
- On a new specimen of the rare deep-sea species Aulastomatomorpha phospherops (Teleostei, Alepocephalidae) from the Arabian Sea
- Range extension and first mtDNA data for the living relict Tesseropora atlantica (Cirripedia, Tetraclitidae) in the Canary Islands
- Occurrence of the eastern mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki Girard, 1859 (Poeciliidae, Cyprinodontiformes) in the Madeira Archipelago (NE Atlantic)
Links
- ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9347-0823
- Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=I-Kmap0AAAAJ
- Scopus https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6603284678