Benedetto Lanza

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]

Eponyms

Lanza is commemorated in the scientific names of a species and a subspecies of reptiles: Chalcides lanzai and Latastia longicaudata lanzai.[2] One bat species is also named after him, the Socotran or Lanza's pipistrelle (Hypsugo lanzai).[3]

References
  1. "Benedetto Lanza – Museo di Storia Naturale – Università di Firenze". Università di Firenze. Archived from the original on May 15, 2016.
  2. 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).
  3. 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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