Benedetto Lanza (1924–2016), Italian herpetologist and chiropterologist.

• Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e Genetica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy.
• Museo di Storia Naturale dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sezione di Zoologia «La Specola», Firenze, Italy.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 24 taxon names authored by Benedetto Lanza

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Riccucci, M. & Lanza, B. 2008. Neoromicia Roberts, 1926 (Mammalia Vespertilionidae): correction of gender and etymology. Hystrix - Italian Journal of Mammalogy 19(2): 175–177. DOI: 10.4404/hystrix-19.2-4427 Reference page. 

• Wallach, V., Lanza, B. & Nistri, A. 2010. Aprosdoketophis andreoni, a new genus and species of snake from Somalia (Serpentes: Colubridae: Boiginae). African Journal of Herpetology 59(2): 95–110. DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2010.512962 Reference page. 

Eponyms

• Chthonius lanzai Caporiacco, 1947
• Chalcides lanzai Pasteur, 1967
• Lacerta sicula lanzai Mertens, 1967 [accepted as Podarcis siculus lanzai]
• Latastia longicaudata lanzai Arillo, Balletto & Spano, 1967
• Natrix natrix lanzai Kramer, 1970
• Lanzarana Clarke, 1982
• Hoplotarache lanzai Berio, 1985 [accepted as Acontia lanzai]
• Salamandra lanzai Nascetti, Andreone, Capula & Bullini, 1988
• Emys orbicularis lanzai Fritz, 1995 [synonym of Emys orbicularis galloitalica]
• Hypsugo lanzai Benda, Al-Jumaily, Reiter & Nasher, 2011
• Agama lanzai Wagner, Leaché, Mazuch & Böhme, 2013
• Myriopholis lanzai Broadley, Wade & Wallach, 2014

References