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] 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
Lanza's skink Chalcides lanzai G. Pasteur , 1967
The lizard Latastia longicaudata lanzaiArillo , Balletto & Spanó , 1967[ 2]
The bat species Socotran or Lanza's pipistrelle Hypsugo lanzai Benda , Al-Jumaily , Reiter & Nasher , 2011[ 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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