Petre Mihai Bănărescu

Petre Mihai Bănărescu (born 15 September 1921 in Craiova, Dolj County – died 12 May 2009 in Bucharest) was a Romanian ichthyologist.

[2] Bănărescu published around 300 papers in scholarly journals.

[1] In 1975 he was elected an honorary member of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists[3] and an honorary member of the European Society of Ichtyologists in 1988.

[1][4] Oxynoemacheilus araxensis Ancherythroculter daovantieni Squalidus banarescui I. S. Chen & Y. C. Chang 2007 was named in honor of Bănărescu, Institute of Biology, Bucharest, for his "great" contributions to Taiwanese cyprinid taxonomy, especially the subfamily Gobioninae, between 1960 and 1973.

[5] Mesonoemacheilus petrubanarescui (Menon, 1984) was named in his honor.