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Andy Dunsire

He was a Scotsman and an experienced caver working for a firm of aircraft engineers (Airwork, with a base in Thamarit).  He also lived in living Dhofar (Oman).  With the help of Aileen Mortimer, a school friend of  his sister Glenys, this Andy, or Drew as he was known in the family, was identified as the son of William Dunsire and Emma Cooper, of Buckhaven.

Together with M. Gallagher collected 100 dead and 56 live individuals of the hypogean population of Garra barreimiae in May 1980 (Banister et al. 1992). 

Garra dunsirei was named after him.