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. He was Professor of Biology and Director of the Natural History Museum at the Università degli Studi di Firenze.
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 lanzai Arillo, Balletto & Spanó, 1967
- The bat species Socotran or Lanza's pipistrelle Hypsugo lanzai Benda, Al-Jumaily, Reiter & Nasher, 2011
References
- "Benedetto Lanza – Museo di Storia Naturale – Università di Firenze". Università di Firenze. Archived from the original on May 15, 2016.
- ^ 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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