Carlos de la Torre y Huerta (May 15, 1858 in Matanzas,

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– February 19, 1950 in

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) was a Cuban naturalist. He was the president of

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from November 1903 to April 1904. He is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of Cuban gecko, '' Sphaerodactylus torrei''.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Torre", pp. 266-267).

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