Antonio Jatta

Antonio Jatta (25 June 1852 – 4 August 1912) was an Italian politician and lichenologist. After completing his secondary studies at the

Classical Lyceum Umberto I The Classical Lyceum Umberto I is a secondary school situated in Amendola Square, Naples. History The Classical Lyceum Umberto I was founded in 1862 in Naples, Italy. Notable alumni * Antonio Jatta (1852–1912), an Italian politician and li ...

in Naples, at the age of 22 he graduated with honours in natural history at the University of Naples and in agriculture at the Royal Higher School of Agriculture in Portici. He was a wealthy landowner who published ''Flora Italica Cryptogama'' in several volumes from 1900 to 1909. Jatta identified the lichens that were given in the 1915 list of the lichens of the Maltese Islands, compiled by the botanists

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and Alfredo Caruana Gatto. A 1962 publication by William Culberson noted that most of his

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names from the ''Flora Italica Cryptogama'' had not been included in

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's influential 10-volume work ''Catalog Lichenum Universalis'' (1922–1940), nor in

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's (then known as Ivan Lamb) 1963 followup work ''Index Nominum Lichenum''. Culberson catalogued 467 of Jatta's names to avoid the future publication of "superfluous or otherwise illegitimate names". Jatta was a member of the Italian Botanical Society, the Société botanique de France, the Cryptogamological Society of Milan, the

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, and the Society of Natural and Mathematical Sciences of Naples. In 1900, botanist

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published ''

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'', which is a genus of fungi in the family

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and named in honour of Antonio Jatta. Then in 1953, botanists Raffaele Ciferri and Ruggero Tomaselli published ''Jattaeomyces'', which is a genus of

Lichenes A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.1852 births 1912 deaths 19th-century Italian scientists 20th-century Italian scientists 19th-century Italian politicians 20th-century Italian politicians University of Naples Federico II alumni Taxonomists Italian lichenologists People from Ruvo di Puglia