Gintaras Kantvilas

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Gintaras Kantvilas
Academic career

Gintaras Kantvilas (born 1956)[1] is an Australian lichenologist, who earned his Ph.D in 1985 from the University of Tasmania with a thesis entitled Studies on Tasmanian rainforest lichens.[2] He has authored over 432 species names,[3] and 167 genera[4] in the field of mycology. Kanvilas completed his secondary education at St Virgil's College in Hobart in 1973.[5] In 1985, he was working for the Tasmanian National Parks and Wildlife Service.[6] In 1987 he was listing his affiliation as Department of Botany, University of Tasmania,[7] in addition to the Tasmanian National Parks and Wildlife Service.[8] By 2001 his affiliation was listed as the Tasmanian Herbarium,[9] and this has continued until at least 2018.[10] The lichen genera Gintarasia[11] and Kantvilasia are named in his honour.[12] The standard author abbreviation Kantvilas is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]

Some genera authored

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Index Fungorum - Fungal Name Author Details: Gintaras Kantvilas". www.indexfungorum.org. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  2. Kantvilas, Gintaris (1985). Studies on Tasmanian rainforest lichens (phd thesis). University of Tasmania.
  3. "Mycobank:Advanced search (author contains Kantvilas)". Mycobank. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  4. "Using an advanced search (author name contains "Kantvilas" AND rank=genus)". www.mycobank.org. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  5. "Returning Land to its Traditional Owners » Old Virgilians Association". oldvirgilians.org.au. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
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  11. Kraichak, Ekaphan; Parnmen, Sittiporn; Lücking, Robert; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten (2013). "Gintarasia and Xalocoa, two new genera to accommodate temperate to subtropical species in the predominantly tropical Graphidaceae (Ostropales, Ascomycota)". Australian Systematic Botany. 26 (6): 466–474. doi:10.1071/sb13038.
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  13. "Index Fungorum - Names Record Ramboldia". www.indexfungorum.org. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
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  15. "Index Fungorum - Names Record Amphorothecium". www.indexfungorum.org. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
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