# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-elena-caso
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:36:35.946Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-elena-caso"
name: "María Elena Caso"
slug: "maria-elena-caso"
description: "María Elena Caso was a Mexican biologist who pioneered the study of starfish and other echinoderms in Mexico. She started the National Collection of Equinoderms in Mexico, the most important one in Latin America, which currently has at least 100.000 samples from 800 species from the Mexican coast and participated in the foundation of the laboratory of hydrobiology of the Biology Institute at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, currently known as \"Marine Sciences and Limnology Institute\". She became a reference scientist in marine biodiversity."
tagline: "Mexican zoologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mar%C3%ADa_Elena_Caso.tif?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Mexico"
  isoCode: "MX"
birthDate: "1915-12-18"
deathDate: "1991-11-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.42
  momentum:             1.25
  historical:           5.269690666666667
  currentAttention:     6.944444444444443
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "María Elena Caso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماريا الينا كاسو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Elena_Caso"
    title: "María Elena Caso"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Elena_Caso"
    title: "María Elena Caso"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Elena_Caso"
    title: "María Elena Caso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Elena_Caso"
    title: "María Elena Caso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20744796"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump