Orangel Aguilera
Universidad Nacional Experimental Francisco de Miranda
Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Básicas
Complejo Docente Los Perozos
Carretera Variante Sur
Coro, 4101
estado Falcón
Venezuela

Orangel Aguilera is Professor Emeritus at the Universidad Francisco de Miranda in Venezuela. He received his first degree in Oceanography at the Fundação Universidade de Rio Grande in Brasil, his Masters in Marine Biology at the Venezuelan Oceanographic Institute of the Universidad de Oriente, and his PhD from the Central University of Venezuela. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. His research spans alpha taxonomy - describing new living and fossil species -, paleoecology, and macroecolog, being interested in large scale trends in species diversity and community evolution. Many of his investigations focus on a group of freshwater and marine fishes (recent and fossil), reptiles and mammals (Neogene species) in Tropical America.