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]

Taxon described by him

See Category:Taxa named by Benedetto Lanza

Taxon named in his honor

The lizard Agama lanzai Wagner, Leaché, Mazuch & Böhme [de], 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 [fr], 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.