Mario Benazzi

Mario Benazzi

Mario Benazzi (Cento, August 29, 1902 – Pisa, December 6, 1997) was an Italian zoologist, professor at the Istituto di Zoologia e Anatomia Comparata of the University of Pisa. He published work on platyhelminths and evolutionary cytogenetics.[1][2][3]

Benazzi is honoured in the polychaete name Diurodrilus benazzii Gerlach, 1952 and in the copepod name Colobomatus benazzii Delamare Deboutteville & Nunes Ruivo, 1958.[citation needed] In 1971, he was elected a national member of the Accademia dei Lincei.[4]

References

  1. ^ Mancino, G.; Olmo, E.; Redi, C. A. (1999). "Presentation of the symposium on "genome structure and evolution"". Italian Journal of Zoology 66 (3): 205. doi:10.1080/11250009909356257.  edit
  2. ^ Gremigni, V. (2001), "In memoriam: Mario Benazzi (1902–1997)", in Saló, E.; Watson, N.; Schockaert, E. (CD-ROM), Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on the Biology of the Turbellaria, Barcelona, Spain, June 2000, Belgian Journal of Zoology, 131 (Suppl. 1), pp. 11–14, http://www.naturalsciences.be/institute/associations/rbzs_website/bjz/back/pdf/BJZ%20131(s1)/Volume%20131(s1).pdf .
  3. ^ Mancino, Giorgio (1998), "In recordo di Mario Benazzi (1902–1997)" (in Italian), Italian Journal of Zoology 65 (4): 425–428, doi:10.1080/11250009809386785 .
  4. ^ Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei: Biografie e bibliografie degli Accademici Lincei, Rome 1976, pp. 364–376. (Italian)


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