Carlo Violani

Carlo Violani, born 1946, Italian zoologist at the University of Pavia department of animal biology.[1] A genus was named for the author, Violania,[1] for a taxonomic treatment of the contentious genus Platycercus (rosellas),[2] recognised as a subgenus Platycercus (Violania) Wells & Wellington, 1992 by later authorities.[3]

References
  1. name: Violania Jobling, J. A. (2018). Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.) (2018). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
  2. Shipham, Ashlee; Schmidt, Daniel J.; Joseph, Leo; Hughes, Jane M. (October 2015). "Phylogenetic analysis of the Australian rosella parrots (Platycercus) reveals discordance among molecules and plumage". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 91: 150–159. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.05.012. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 26021439.
  3. "Subspecies Platycercus (Violania) Wells & Wellington, 1992". Australian Faunal Directory. Department of the Environment and Energy. Retrieved 23 October 2018.


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