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]

References
  1. 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.
  2. "NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC COMMITTEE CELEBRATES ITS 45TH ANNIVERSARY". SHOA. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  3. "Dr. Julio Lamilla: background and teacher's legacy". Instituto de Formento Pesquero. 1 April 2016. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  4. "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.
  5. Bauwens, Joe (8 August 2019). "Dipturus lamillai: A new species of Long-snout Skate from the Falkland Islands". Sciency Thoughts. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
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