Alfredo Borelli (18 November 1858, in

Marseilles Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

– 6 May 1943, in Boves, Piedmont) was a

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-born Italian zoologist, who worked mainly in Turin but who, early in his natural history career, conducted field work in South America. Borelli graduated in law from Aix University in 1888 and practised as a lawyer in Marseilles for a while before deciding to follow his interest in the natural sciences, going to his family's home country of Italy and graduating from the University of Turin in 1886. He worked in Munich and Berlin but most of his scientific career was spent at the institute of zoology of the University of Turin, from where he retired in 1930. He worked at the '' Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino'' from 1900 to 1913. The

gecko Geckos are small, mostly carnivorous lizards that have a wide distribution, found on every continent except Antarctica. Belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, geckos are found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from . Geckos ar ...

'' Homonota borellii'', the

amphisbaenian Amphisbaenia (called amphisbaenians or worm lizards) is a group of usually legless squamates, comprising over 200 extant species. Amphisbaenians are characterized by their long bodies, the reduction or loss of the limbs, and rudimentary eyes. As ...

'' Amphisbaena borelli'', the millipede ''Urostreptus borellii'' (Silvestri, 1895) and the

cichlid Cichlids are fish from the family Cichlidae in the order Cichliformes. Cichlids were traditionally classed in a suborder, the Labroidei, along with the wrasses ( Labridae), in the order Perciformes, but molecular studies have contradicted this ...

Apistogramma borellii ''Apistogramma borellii'', common names umbrella cichlid, umbrella apisto and yellow dwarf cichlid, is a species of fish in the genus '' Apistogramma''. It is a South American dwarf cichlid, found in the Paraguay River and Paraná River. Th ...

'' are among the taxa named in honor of Borelli. He carried out field work in Bolivia, Argentina, and Paraguay where he collected specimens, and many of his specimens were described by

Mario Giacinto Peracca Mario Giacinto Peracca (21 November 1861, Turin – 23 May 1923, Turin) was an Italian herpetologist. He discovered zoology through his father, an amateur ornithologist. He started taking medical classes at the University of Turin, with his stud ...

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