Giovanni Domenico Nardo
Born(1802-03-04)4 March 1802
Venice
Died7 April 1877(1877-04-07) (aged 75)
Nationality Italian
Alma materUniversity of Padua
Scientific career
FieldsBotany & Zoology
Author abbrev. (botany)Nardo
Author abbrev. (zoology)Nardo

Giovanni Domenico Nardo (4 March 1802 – 7 April 1877) was an Italian naturalist from Venice, although he spent most of his life in Chioggia, home port of the biggest fishing flotilla of the Adriatic. He learned taxidermy and specimen preparation from his uncle, an abbot. He went in a high school in Udine and studied medicine in Padua, where he reorganized the zoological collections. In 1832 he reorganized the invertebrate collection at the Imperial Natural History Museum in Vienna and in 1840 he became Fellow of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, an academy whose aim is "to increase, promulgate, and safeguard the sciences, literature and the arts". Nardo wrote hundreds of scientific publications ranging from medicine and social sciences, philology, technology, physics, but mostly on Venetian and Adriatic zoology. In marine biology, Nardo wrote on algae, marine invertebrates, fishes and sea turtles. A vast collection of his manuscripts and his personal library is preserved in the Natural History Museum of Venice.[1]

Taxon described by him

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), Nardo is the naming authority for 144 marine taxa.[2]

Publications

The standard author abbreviation Nardo is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Biblioteca del Museo di storia naturale - Venezia". Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved July 6, 2010.
  2. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species". Retrieved July 6, 2010.
  3. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Nardo.
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