Michael Vecchione | |
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Nationality | American |
Education | University of Miami |
Alma mater | College of William and Mary |
Known for | Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Zoology |
Institutions | Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History |
Michael Vecchione is an American zoologist currently at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History[1] and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2001.[2] His highest cited paper is Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks at 661 times, according to Google Scholar.[3] His current interests are marine biodiversity and cephalopods.[4] He described the Magnapinnidae family in 1998 along with Richard Young.[5]