Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha

Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha
Born April 6, 1930
Belém, Brazil
Died Belém
March 11, 2011 (2011-03-12) (aged 80)
Nationality Brazilian
Fields Zoology
paleontology
Herpetology
Institutions Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Alma mater Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)

Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha (6 April 1930 – 11 March 2011) was a Brazilian paleontologist and herpetologist. Da Cunha was born in Belém, and studied zoology at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) of Manaus.

Selected works

Authored Taxa

  • Amapasaurus tetradactylus Cunha 1970
  • Atractus albuquerquei Cunha & Nascimento, 1983
  • Atractus alphonsehogei Cunha & Nascimento, 1983
  • Atractus snethlageae Cunha & Nascimento, 1983
  • Colobosauroides cearensis Cunha, Lima-Verde & Lima, 1991
  • Gonatodes eladioi Nascimento, Ávila-Pires & Cunha, 1987
  • Kinosternon scorpioides carajasensis Cunha 1970
  • Liophis carajasensis Cunha, Nascimento & Ávila-Pires, 1985
  • Micrurus paraensis Cunha & Nascimento, 1973
  • Oxyrhopus melanogenys orientalis Cunha & Nascimento, 1983
  • Placosoma cipoense Cunha, 1966

Eponyms

Amphisbaena cunhai Hoogmoed & Ávila-Pires, 1991, a species of worm lizard, is named in his honor.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins; Michael Grayson. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Cunha", p. 62).
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