Michael Vecchione is an American zoologist currently at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History[1] and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2001.
[2] His highest cited paper is Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks at 661 times, according to Google Scholar.
[3] His current interests are marine biodiversity and cephalopods.
[4] He described the Magnapinnidae family in 1998 along with Richard Young.
at University of Miami in 1972 and his Ph.D. at College of William and Mary in 1979.