Benedetto Lanza (May 24, 1924, Florence – March 10, 2016, Florence) was an Italian herpetologist and chiropterologist. He published over 500 works, with the first one being published in 1946. He described 68 new taxa. (in Italian). He was Professor of Biology and Director of the Natural History Museum at the Università degli Studi di Firenze.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Lanza, p. 151).
Taxon described by him See :Category:Taxa named by Benedetto Lanza
Taxon named in his honor The lizard Agama lanzai Wagner, Leaché, Mazuch & Böhme, 2013 Lanza's alpine salamander or the large alpine salamander Salamandra lanzai Nascetti, Andreone, Capula & Bullini, 1988 Lanza's skink Chalcides lanzai G. Pasteur, 1967 The lizard Latastia longicaudata lanzai The bat species Socotran or Lanza's pipistrelle Hypsugo lanzai
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