Carlos de la Torre y Huerta (May 15, 1858 in Matanzas, Cuba – February 19, 1950 in Havana) was a Cuban naturalist.
He was the president of House of Representatives from November 1903 to April 1904.
He is commemorated in the scientific names of a species of Cuban gecko, Sphaerodactylus torrei,Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Torre", pp. 266-267). as well as the genus Torreites of a now extinct rudist bivalve from the Cretaceous period, and the recently extinct spiny-rat Boromys torrei.
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