Joseph Verco

Sir Joseph Cooke Verco (1 ga Agusta 1851 – 26 Yuli 1933) likita ne kuma masanin ilmin taurari na Australiya.

An haifi Verco a ƙasar Ostiraliya ga iyayensa 'yan asalin Birtaniya, kuma ya yi karatu na shekara guda a Kwalejin St Peter's, Adelaide, kafin ya ci gaba da karatun likitanci a Jami'ar Landan. Ya koma Ostiraliya a shekarar 1878, inda ya yi aiki a matsayin likita, malami a Jami'ar Adelaide, kuma shugaban ƙungiyar likitocin Burtaniya reshen Kudancin Ostiraliya. Verco ya yi ritaya daga aikin likitanci a shekarar 1919, kuma a wannan shekarar aka naɗa shi shugaban sashen likitanci a Adelaide. Daga baya aka naɗa shi shugaban sashen ilimin hakora.[1]

Outside of medicine, Verco collaborated with Charles Hedley and Professor William A. Haswell in investigating South Australia's continental shelf. His work as a taxonomist included the description of Sepia braggi, the slender cuttlefish. The database WoRMS contains 150 marine species named by J. C. Verco, many of which have become synonyms. He was mentor to Bernard Charles Cotton, who served as the  South Australian Museum's Curator of Molluscs from 1934 to 1962.

Lambar yabo ta Verco ita ce babbar kyauta da Royal Society of South Australia ta bayar. 

An sanya wa ginin Verco da ke Minda Home (wanda aka gina a shekarar 1914) suna saboda shi. 

 Manazarta 

Category:Mutuwan 1933