Raffaello Bellini

Raffaello Bellini (1874-1930)[1] was an Italian zoologist who specialised in mollusca.

Prof. Raffaello Bellini taught at Regia Scuola Tecnica Statale, Chivasso, He was a non resident Member of Società dei naturalisti in Napoli. Similarly to other distinguished naturalists (Oronzio Gabriele Costa, Achille Costa, Arcangelo Scacchi, etc.) he collaborated with the University of Naples Federico II[2]

Together with the leading scholars of malacology then present in Naples (Ignazio Cerio, Tommaso di Maria Allery Monterosato, etc.) he contributed to a thorough knowledge of the fauna the Gulf of Naples.[3] For nearly fifty years his catalog of molluscs constituted the only general contribution on marine malacofauna of the Gulf of Naples.[4]

He described Emarginula rosea Bellini, 1929, Emarginula depressa Bellini, 1929 (now synonym of Emarginula sicula J.E. Gray, 1825[5]), and varieties of other Mollusca species.[6][7] Parts of his natural history collection are held by the Zoological Museum of Naples and by Centro Caprese Ignazio Cerio on Capri.[8][9]

Works

References

  1. Repertorio di Libri e Pubblicazioni su: Napoli
  2. Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II
  3. Centro Caprense
  4. Fernando Ghisotti - RINVENIMENTI MALACOLOGICI NEL MEDITERRANEO
  5. WoRMS
  6. Oliverio M. 2003. The Mediterranean molluscs: the best known malacofauna of the world... so far. Biogeographia 24: 195-208.
  7. Maria Cristina Gambi et al., 2013 The Archivio Moncharmont: a Pioneering Biodiversity Assessment in the Gulf of Naples (Italy) Conference paper: In: Groeben C. (Ed), Places, People, Tools: Oceanography in the Mediterranean and Beyond., At Napoli (Italy), Volume: Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli 4: 459-467 pdf
  8. Collezione Malacologica Mediterranea
  9. Centro Caprense
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