Bibiano Fernández Osorio-Tafall

He became mayor of his home town at the age of 28 and was a top official of the Spanish Republic during that country's civil war.  He fled Spain after the Civil War and went to Mexico where he taught at the Instituto Politénico Nacional starting in 1942.  In 1947 became professor of natural resources at the Geography Department of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).  In 1949 he left to work for FAO in Rome and the to the United Nations, where he reached the position of undersecretary of the UN (Alvarez 1992).

He was member of the Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas of the UNAM that included, among others José Alvarez.  They carried out earlier explorations in search of the troglomorphic Astyanax fasciatus.

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