Gregor Cailliet Explained

Gregor Michel Cailliet
Birth Date:	1943 ?
Workplaces:	Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, part of The California State University

Gregor Michel Cailliet^[1] is an American scientist who studies the ecology of marine fishes. He is professor emeritus at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, part of The California State University, having officially retired in 2009.

Education and career

Cailliet received a B.A. and Ph.D. from University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author of the books Fishes: A field and laboratory manual on their structure, identification, and natural history and Everyman's Guide to Ecological Living (New York, Macmillan: 1971), as well as many journal articles.

Cladorhiza caillieti, a carnivorous sponge first described in 2014, is named after him.^[2]

External links

• Biography at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
• Biography at The California State University
• Publications and citations at Google Scholar

Notes and References

1. Watkins, M. & Boelens, B. (2015): Sharks: An Eponym Dictionary. pp. 219. Pelagic Publishing. .
2. Lundsten. Lonny. Reiswig, Henry M. . Austin, William C. . Four new species of Cladorhizidae (Porifera, Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) from the Northeast Pacific. Zootaxa. 2014. 3786. 2. 101–123. 10.11646/zootaxa.3786.2.1. 24869529. free.