Niccolò Gualtieri

Illustration of the shell of Cypraea tigris in Index Testarum Conchyliorum

Niccolò Gualtieri (1688–1744) was an Italian doctor and malacologist. In 1742, he published Index Testarum Conchyliorum, quae adservantur in Museo Nicolai Gualtieri (translation: List of the shells of shellfish which are preserved in the museum of Niccolò Gualtieri). Gualtieri was a professor at the University of Pisa. He was amongst the first to depict the argonaut. His collections are deposited at the Museo storia naturale di Pisa.

External links

• Plates from Index Testarum Conchyliorum

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Name	Gualtieri, Niccolo
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Date of birth	1688
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Date of death	1744
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