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
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Gremigni, V. (2001), "In memoriam: Mario Benazzi (1902–1997)", in Saló, E.; Watson, N.; Schockaert, E. (eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on the Biology of the Turbellaria, Barcelona, Spain, June 2000 (CD-ROM), Belgian Journal of Zoology, vol. 131 (Suppl. 1), pp. 11–14[permanent dead link].
- ^ Mancino, Giorgio (1998), "In recordo di Mario Benazzi (1902–1997)", Italian Journal of Zoology (in Italian), 65 (4): 425–428, doi:10.1080/11250009809386785.
- ^ Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei: Biografie e bibliografie degli Accademici Lincei, Rome 1976, pp. 364–376. (in Italian)
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