Dr. Dennis M. Devaney (1938-1983)
Education
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A., 1968-1969.
- Ph.D., University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A., 1968
- M.A., University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., 1962
- B.A., Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., 1960
Dr. Devaney was a prominent echinoderm researcher. In 1967, he became an Invertebrate Zoologist at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Hawaii. He eventually became Chairman of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology at the Bishop Museum.
Much of his research was focused on the systematics and zoogeography of ophiuroids, particularly shallow-water tropical Indo-Pacific forms.
Relevant to the biota of the Gulf of Mexico, Dr. Devaney has published the following:
Devaney, D. M. 1974. Shallow-water echinoderms from British Honduras, with a description of a new species of Ophiocoma (Ophiuroidea). Bulletin of Marine Science 24: 122–164.