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Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala (1900–1976) was a Sri Lankan paleontologist , zoologist , and artist.
Early life and education [ edit ]
He was born in Colombo , the son of Paul Edward Pieris and Lady Hilda Obeyesekere Pieris. He had two younger brothers, Justin Pieris Deraniyagala , Ralph St. Louis Pieris Deraniyagala , and a sister, Miriam Pieris Deraniyagala. He was educated at S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia and Trinity College, Cambridge , where he gained a BA in 1922 and an Oxbridge MA in 1923. He entered Harvard University for a year, where he was awarded a Master of Arts in 1924.[citation needed
He specialised in fauna and human fossils of the Indian subcontinent . From 1939 to 1963, he was the director of the National Museum of Ceylon , and from 1961 to 1964, he was also the dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Vidyodaya University .
He described several fossils and proposed scientific names for species and subspecies , with several now identified as dubious , including:
During his trips to China, he studied the Chinese alligator and published a new genus name for it. In the scientific field of herpetology , he described many new species of lizards and snakes .[8] [better source needed
He served as president of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society from 1952 to 1955.[9]
Deraniyagala is commemorated in the scientific names of three species of Sri Lankan reptiles: Aspidura deraniyagalae Lankascincus deraniyagalae Nessia deraniyagalai [10]
He was married to Prini Molamure; their son Siran Upendra Deraniyagala is also a famous scientist, specialising in archeology .
See also [ edit ]
^ a b Deraniyagala, P. E. P. (1939). "Some fossil animals from Ceylon, Part II". Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland . 34
^ a b Deraniyagala, P. E. P. (1963). "Some mammals of the extinct Ratnapura Fauna of Ceylon Part V, with reconstructions of the hippopotamus and the gaur". Spolia Zeylanica . 30
^ Manamendra-Arachchi, K.; Pethiyagoda, R.; Dissanayake, R.; Meegaskumbura, M. (2005). "A second extinct big cat from the late Quaternary of Sri Lanka" . The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . Supplement No. 12: 423–434.
^ Deraniyalaga, P. E. P. (1951). "Does the tiger inhabit the Sudan?". Spolia Zeylanica . 26
^ Mazák, V. (1980). Velké kočky a gepardi . Praha: Státní zemědělské nakladatelství.
^ Deraniyagala, P. E. P. (1955). Some Extinct Elephants, Their Relatives and the Two Living Species . Colombo: Ceylon Natural History Museum.
^ Shoshani, J. (2005). "Subspecies Elephas maximus indicus " . In Wilson, D.E. ; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0 OCLC 62265494 .
^ "Deraniyagala". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
^ "Past Presidents" . Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka. 18 November 2009. Retrieved 7 January 2017 .
^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5 . ("Deraniyagala", p. 70).
^ මහාචාර්ය පී. ඊ. පී. දැරණියගල පූර්විකාව (Prof. P. E. P. Deraniyagala) , retrieved 2023-07-08
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