Leonardo Fea
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Biography
Fea was born in Turin, a son of Paolo Fea, who was professor of painting at Accademia Albertina, and Anna Roda. In 1872 he became an assistant at the Museum of Natural History in Genoa. He made several foreign trips to collect specimens, including visits to Burma (1885–89) and the Cape Verde Islands (1898), the islands in the Gulf of Guinea (São Tomé, Príncipe, Fernando Po, Annobón, 1900–02) and Cameroon and French Congo (1902).[1] He spent four years in Burma, accumulating large collections of insects and birds. He then planned an expedition to Malaysia, but his poor health made it necessary to choose somewhere with a drier climate, hence his visit to the Cape Verdes. He was disappointed by the amount of wildlife he found there, but was still able to collect forty-seven species of birds, eleven of which were new for the islands. His collections are in the Genoa museum.
While on the Cape Verde Islands Fea collected a specimen of an unknown petrel. This was named Fea's petrel in 1900 by his friend Tommaso Salvadori.
Taxa named in his honour
Several species have been named to commemorate his work as naturalist and zoologist: [2][3]
- Fea's short-legged toad, Brachytarsophrys feae (Boulenger, 1887)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[4]
- Fea's viper, Azemiops feae Boulenger, 1888Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[5]
- Fea's muntjac, Muntiacus feae (Thomas, 1881)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Fea's tube-nosed bat, Murina feae (Thomas & Doria, 1889)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Fea's tree rat, Chiromyscus chiropus (Thomas, 1891)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Fea's bow-fingered gecko, Cyrtodactylus feae (Boulenger, 1893)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[5]
- Fea's petrel, Pterodroma feae (Salvadori, 1900)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Ugly worm lizard, Cynisca feae (Boulenger, 1906)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[5]
- St. Thomas beaked snake, Letheobia feae (Boulenger, 1906)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[5]
- Fea's chameleon, Trioceros feae (Boulenger, 1906)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[5]
- the horseweed species Conyza feae (Bég.) Wild, 1969Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- the woodlice genus Feadillo Schmalfuss & Ferrara, 1983Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
References
Further reading
- Conci C (1975). "Repertorio delle biografie e bibliografie degli scrittori e cultori italiani di entomologia ". Mem. Soc. Ent. Ital 48 (4): 817–1069. (in Italian).
- Conci C, Poggi R (1996). "Iconography of Italian Entomologists, with essential biographical data". Mem. Soc. Ent. Ital 75: 159–382.
- Gestro A (1904). ["Fea, L."] Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Third Series 1 (= 41): 95-152. (Portrait). (in Italian).
- Nalesini O (2009). L'Asia Sud-orientale nella cultura italiana. Bibliografia analitica ragionata, 1475-2005. Rome: Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente. pp. 19–20, 65–66. Template:ISBN. (in Italian).
External links
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- ↑ a b c d e Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Template:ISBN. ("Fea", p. 88).
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- 1852 births
- 1903 deaths
- Painters from Turin
- 19th-century Italian explorers
- Italian ornithologists
- Italian entomologists
- 19th-century Italian painters
- 19th-century Italian male artists
- Italian male painters
- 20th-century Italian painters
- Italian painters of animals
- Italian naturalists
- Bird artists
- Scientists from Turin
- 20th-century Italian male artists