Giuseppe Antonio Risso (8 April 1777 – 25 August 1845), called Antoine Risso, was a
Niçard and
naturalist.
Risso was born in the city of
Nice
Nice ( , ; Niçard dialect, Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department in France. The Nice urban unit, agg ...
in the
Duchy of Savoy, and studied under
Giovanni Battista Balbis
Giovanni Battista Balbis (17 November 1765 – 3 February 1831) was an Italian botanist and politician who worked in Italy and France. He alternately was called Gioanni Battista Balbis and Jean-Baptiste Balbis.
In 1804, botanist Antonio José ...
. He published ' (1810), ' (1826) and ' (1818–1822).
Risso's dolphin
Risso's dolphin (''Grampus griseus'') is a dolphin, the only species of the genus ''Grampus''. Some of the closest related species to these dolphins include: pilot whales (''Globicephala'' spp.), pygmy killer whales (''Feresa attenuata''), melon ...
was named after him. He is denoted by the
author abbreviation Risso when
citing a
botanical name
A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the ''International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants'' (ICN) and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar or Group epithets must conform to the ''Internat ...
; the same abbreviation is used for
zoological names.
Genera and species named after him
* ''
Rissoa'' : a genus of gastropods
* ''
Rissoella'' : a genus of gastropod
* ''
Rissoella'' : a genus of
red algae
* ''
Electrona risso'' : a
lanternfish
*''
Polyacanthonotus rissoanus'' : smallmouth spiny eel
Genera and species named by him
He named 549 marine genera and species.
IPNI
The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) describes itself as "a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and lycophytes." Coverage of plant names is best at the rank of species and genus. It incl ...
gives 81 records for Risso.
IPNI: author Risso
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Bibliography
* Risso A. (1818). "Memoire sur quelques Gasteropodes nouveaux, Nudibranches et Tectibranches observes dans la Mer de Nice". ''Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle et des Arts'' 87
368
��377.
* Risso A. (1826–1827). ''Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe Méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes''. Paris, Levrault.
** (1826). Vol. 1: XII + 448 pp., 1 plate.
** (November 1827). Vol. 2: VII + 482 pp., 8 pl. (flowers).
** (September 1827). Vol. 3: XVI + 480 pp., 14 pl. (fishes).
** (November 1826). Vol. 4: IV + 439 pp., 12 pl. (molluscs).
** (November 1827). Vol. 5: VIII + 400 pp., 10 pl. (other invertebrates).
* Emig C. C., 2012. Révision des espèces de brachiopodes décrites par A. Risso. Carnets de Géologie / Notebooks on Geology
Article 2012/02 (CG2012_A02)
with the scientific bibliography of A. Risso in an appendix
References
Further reading
*
External links
*
* Site Risso: http://paleopolis.rediris.es/benthos/Risso/
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1777 births
1845 deaths
French zoologists
French taxonomists
French carcinologists
French ichthyologists
Italian zoologists
People from Nice
French people of Italian descent
19th-century French zoologists