Petre Mihai Bănărescu (born 15 September 1921 in Craiova, Dolj County – died 12 May 2009 in Bucharest) was a Romanian ichthyologist. [1] Bănărescu was a member of the Romanian Academy. [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]
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. [6]