Tommaso Salvadori | |
|---|---|
 Tommaso Salvadori | |
| Born | 30 September 1835 |
| Died | 9 October 1923 |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Zoology and ornithology. |
Count Adelardo Tommaso Salvadori Paleotti (30 September 1835 – 9 October 1923) was an Italian zoologist and ornithologist.
Salvadori was born in Porto San Giorgio, son of Count Luigi Salvadori and Ethelyn Welby, who was English.[1] His brother Giorgio married their cousin Adele Emiliani (daughter of Giacomo Emiliani and Casson Adelaide Welby) and had five children (Charlie, Robbie, Minnie, Nellie and Guglielmo "Willie"). His nephew Guglielmo Salvadori Paleotti married Giacinta Galletti de Cadilhac (daughter of Arturo Galletti de Cadilhac and Margaret Collier) and had three children (Gladys, Massimo "Max" and Gioconda Beatrice "Joyce"). He studied medicine in Pisa and Rome and graduated in medicine at the University of Pisa.[1]
He participated in Garibaldi's military expedition in Sicily (the Expedition of the Thousand), serving as a medical officer.[1]
He was assistant in the Museum of Zoology in 1863, becoming Vice-Director of the Royal Museum of Natural History in Turin in 1879.[1]
Tommaso Salvadori took an early interest in birds and published a catalogue of the birds of Sardinia in 1862.[1]
He was a specialist in birds of Asia. He studied the wide collections of birds of these regions held by the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova and the collections of East Indian birds at Paris, London, Berlin and Leyden.[1]
In 1880, he was on leave to the British Museum of Natural History in London to work on three volumes of their Catalogue of the Birds.[1]
Salvadori's pheasant (Lophura inornata) is named after him, as is also the crocodile monitor (Varanus salvadorii ),[2] which is also commonly known as Salvadori's monitor, the Papua monitor, or the artelia.
Many other species of birds are named after him, for example, Salvadori's fig parrot Psittaculirostris salvadorii, Yellow-capped pygmy parrot (Micropsitta keiensis), Salvadori nightjar (Caprimulgus pulchellus), Salvadori's antwren (Myrmotherula minor), Salvadori's eremomela (Eremomela salvadorii), Salvadori's seedeater (Serinus xantholaemus), Salvadori's teal (Salvadorina waigiuensis) and others.
He published as many as 300 papers in ornithology.[1]
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