Carlo Antonio Fornasini
Carlo Antonio Fornasini (1802/1805 – 1865) Italian amateur field naturalist. Worked in Mozambique. Corresponded with Antonio Bertoloni, Giuseppe Bertoloni and Giovanni Giuseppe Bianconi of the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna.
He seems not to have published any papers, but to be remembered only by the taxa named in his honour.
Taxa named in honour edit
These are, in date order:
- Anthia fornasinii G.Bertoloni 1845 [1]
- Lactoria fornasini (Thornback cowfish) Bianconi 1846 (as Ostracion fornasini)[2]
- Afrotyphlops fornasinii (Fornasini's blind snake) Bianconi 1849 (as Typhlops fornasinii)[3]
- Afrixalus fornasini (Fornasini's spiny reed frog) Bianconi 1849 (as Euchnemis fornasini)[3]
- Fornasinia Bertol. 1849 [4]
- Fornasinia ebenifera Bertol. 1849 (type species)[4]
- Myomenippe fornasinii Bianconi 1851 (as Menippe fornasinii). No evidence has been found that Bianconi described Menippe fornasini. This may be the same species as Galene fornasinii Bianconi 1851,[5] not otherwise identified
- Fornasinius G.Bertoloni 1853.[6] It is not clear when and by whom Fornasinius was raised to the rank of genus
- Fornasinius fornasinii G.Bertoloni 1853 (as Goliathus fornasini; type species) [7]
- Fulvia fragilis Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775,[8] as Cardium fornasinianum Bianconi 1856 [9]
- Eleotris fusca Forster 1801, as Eleotris fornasini Bianconi 1856 [10] Although the literature says 1856, no description earlier than 1858 has been located
- Coturnix delegorguei (Harlequin quail) Delegorgue 1847, as Coturnix fornasini Bianconi 1865 [11][12]
References edit
- ↑ Alessandrini, A. 1845. Rendiconto delle sessione dell'Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (in Italian). Nuovi Annali delle Scienze Naturali. 2, 4: 416. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36551#page/460/mode/1up.
- ↑ Bianconi, G. Giuseppe 1846. Lettera del Professore G. Giuseppe Bianconi al Nobil Uomo Signor Conte Camillo Salina (in Italian). Nuovi Annali delle Scienze Naturali. 2 (Bologna), 5: 113. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36549#page/123/mode/1up.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bianconi, G. Giuseppe 26 April 1849. Alcune nuove specie di rettili del Mozambico (in Italian). Nuovi Annali delle Scienze Naturali. 2 (Bologna), 10: 106. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9382280#page/118/mode/1up.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Bertolonii, Antonii 1849. Miscellanea Botanica Octava (in Latin). Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Instituti Bononiensis, 9: 573. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31823#page/651/mode/1up.
- ↑ Bianconi, J. Jos. 1851. Specimina zoologica Mosambicana. Fasciculus V. (in Latin). Memorie della Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna, 3: 91 at 108-109. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31788#page/109/mode/1up.
- ↑ Fornasinius Bertolini 1853. Retrieved on 14 March 2019.
- ↑ Bertolini, Giuseppe 1853. Illustrazione dei prodotti naturali del Mozambico. Dissertazione IV. (in Italian). Memorie della Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna, 4: 343 at 345-347. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31816#page/377/mode/1up.
- ↑ Fulvia fragilis (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775). Retrieved on 28 February 2019.
- ↑ Bianconi, J. Jos. 1856. Specimina zoologica Mosambicana. Fasciculus IX. (in Latin). Memorie della Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna, 7: 403 at 409-410. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31818#page/459/mode/1up.
- ↑ Bianconi, J. Jos. 1858. Specimina zoologica Mosambicana. Fasciculus XI. (in Latin). Memorie della Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna, 9: 435 at 441-443. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31819#page/519/mode/1up.
- ↑ Bianconi, J. Josephi 1864. Specimina zoologica Mosambicana. Fasciculus XIV. (in Latin). Memorie della Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna. 2, 4: 519 at 521-522. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/242279#page/577/mode/1up.
- ↑ Ogilvie-Grant, William Robert 1892. Notes on the Genus Coturnix. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 6, 10(56): 173. doi:10.1080/00222939208677386. https://archive.org/details/biostor-88725/page/n7.