sentences:  João de Loureiro 1790, he published the book "Flora Cochinchinensis" sponsored by the Royal Portuguese Academy of Sciences.João de Loureiro has numerous species ""loureiroi"" dedicated to him, mostly plants but also the dinosaur "Draconyx loureiroi" in honour of his being the first Portuguese palaeontologist.The taxonomist Elmer Drew Merrill later argued that Loureiro's work contained various mistakes caused by a misunderstanding of the Linnaean system.