Benedetto Lanza (May 24, 1924, Florence – March 10, 2016, Florence) was an Italian herpetologist and chiropterologist. He published over 500 works, with the first one being published in 1946. He described 68 new taxa. [1] He was Professor of Biology and Director of the Natural History Museum at the Università degli Studi di Firenze. [2]
Taxon described by him
Taxon named in his honor
- The lizard Agama lanzai Wagner, Leaché, Mazuch & Böhme, 2013
- Lanza's alpine salamander or the large alpine salamander Salamandra lanzai Nascetti, Andreone, Capula & Bullini, 1988
- The Lanza's skink Chalcides lanzai G. Pasteur, 1967
- Latastia longicaudata lanzai [2]
- The bat species Socotran or Lanza's pipistrelle ( Hypsugo lanzai). [3]
References
- ^ "Benedetto Lanza – Museo di Storia Naturale – Università di Firenze". Università di Firenze. Archived from the original on May 15, 2016. [ dead link]
- ^ a b Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Lanza, p. 151).
- ^ Benda, Petr; Al-Jumaily, Masaa M.; Reiter, Antonìn; Nasher, Abdul Karim (2010-09-24). "Noteworthy records of bats from Yemen with description of a new species from Socotra". Hystrix, the Italian Journal of Mammalogy. 22 (1). doi: 10.4404/hystrix-22.1-4473. ISSN 0394-1914.
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