Leonard Compagno

Leonard Compagno

Leonard Joseph Victor Compagno is an international authority on <a href="/en/Shark" title="Shark" class="wl">shark</a> <a href="/en/Taxonomy_(biology)" title="Taxonomy (biology)" class="wl">taxonomy</a> and the author of many scientific papers and books on the subject, best known of which is his 1984 catalogue of shark species produced for the <a href="/en/Food_and_Agriculture_Organization" title="Food and Agriculture Organization" class="wl">Food and Agriculture Organization</a> (FAO) of the <a href="/en/United_Nations" title="United Nations" class="wl">United Nations</a>. Compagno was mentioned in the credits of the 1975 film <a href="/en/Jaws_(film)" title="Jaws (film)" class="wl">Jaws</a> along with the <a href="/en/National_Geographic_Society" title="National Geographic Society" class="wl">National Geographic Society</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Jaws-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;">[1]</a>

<div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none" about="#mwt1">American shark ichthyologist</div>

Leonard Joseph Victor Compagno is an international authority on shark taxonomy and the author of many scientific papers and books on the subject, best known of which is his 1984 catalogue of shark species produced for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Compagno was mentioned in the credits of the 1975 film Jaws along with the National Geographic Society. 