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]

  1. ^ "Benedetto Lanza – Museo di Storia Naturale – Università di Firenze". Università di Firenze. Archived from the original on May 15, 2016. [dead link]
  2. ^ 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).