Tommaso Salvadori
Count Adelardo Tommaso Salvadori Paleotti (30 September 1835 – 9 October 1923, Turin) was an Italian zoologist and ornithologist.
Salvadori was born in Porto San Giorgio, son of Count Luigi Salvadori and Ethel Welby, who was English.[1] He took an early interest in birds and published a catalogue of the birds of Sardinia in 1862. He later studied medicine in Pisa and Rome.[1]
He participated in Garibaldi's military expedition in Sicily (the Expedition of the Thousand), serving as a medical officer.
He was assistant in the Museum of Zoology in 1863, becoming Vice-Director of the Royal Museum of Natural History in Turin in 1879. He was a specialist in birds of Asia. In 1880, he was on leave to the British Museum of Natural History in London to work on three volumes of their Catalogue of the Birds.
Salvadori's pheasant (Lophura inornata) is named after him, as is also the crocodile monitor (Varanus salvadorii ),[2] which is also commonly known as Salvadori's monitor, the Papua monitor, or the artelia.
He published as many as 300 papers in ornithology.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 "Notes and news" (PDF). The Auk. 41 (2): 384–385. 1924. doi:10.2307/4074679.
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Salvadori", p. 232).