Adolf Peretti (born 1957) is a Swiss gemologist, mineralogist, and collector of minerals, amber, and fossils.[3] He discovered the eponymously named mineral Perettiite-(Y) and the holotype specimen of the prehistoric amphibian species Yaksha perettii, making Peretti the only living person to have both an animal and a mineral named after him.[4] Perettiite is also the name of a mineral group comprising Perettiite-(Y) and Badakhshanite-(Y).[5]
^Reich, Julian (2023). "Sein Name Wird Bleiben: Der Geologe und Gemmologe Adolf Peretti" [His Name Will Remain: The Geologist and Gemologist Adolf Peretti]. Terra Grischuna (in German): 13–17.