Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha (6 April 1928 – 11 March 2011) was a Brazilian
paleontologist
Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...
and
herpetologist
Herpetology (from Greek ἑρπετόν ''herpetón'', meaning "reptile" or "creeping animal") is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (gymnophiona)) and rept ...
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Da Cunha was born in
Belém
Belém (; Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará) often called Belém of Pará, is a Brazilian city, capital and largest city of the state of Pará in t ...
, and studied zoology at the
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
The National Institute of Amazonian Research (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia or INPA) is a public educational and research institution headquartered in Manaus, Brazil. It was founded in 1952, with the purpose of furthering scientif ...
(INPA) of
Manaus
Manaus () is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. It is the seventh-largest city in Brazil, with an estimated 2020 population of 2,219,580 distributed over a land area of about . Located at the east center of the s ...
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Authored Taxa
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Amapasaurus tetradactylus''
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Atractus albuquerquei''
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Atractus alphonsehogei''
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Atractus snethlageae''
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Colobosauroides cearensis''
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Gonatodes eladioi''
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Kinosternon scorpioides carajasensis''
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Liophis carajasensis''
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Micrurus paraensis
''Micrurus'' is a genus of Venomous snake, venomous coral snakes of the Family (biology), family Elapidae.
Geographic range
Species in the genus ''Micrurus'' are Endemism, endemic to the Americas.
Species
The following 83 species are recognized ...
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Oxyrhopus melanogenys orientalis''
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Placosoma cipoense
''Placosoma cipoense'', Cunha's Brazilian lizard , is a species of lizard in the family Gymnophthalmidae. It is endemic to Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country i ...
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Eponyms
Cunha is commemorated in the scientific names of two species of reptiles: ''
Amphisbaena cunhai'' , a species of worm lizard; and ''
Loxopholis osvaldoi'' , a species of spectacled lizard.
[ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Cunha", p. 62; "Osvaldo", p. 197).]
References
External links
*Vilar, Lucila; Santos, Diego; Bayma, Lílian (2011)
"''Museu Goeldi perde um dos seus mais importantes pesquisadores'' " Consulted: 2010-03-24. (in Portuguese).
*Ramos Feijó, Maria Inês (2011)
''Proferido por Maria Inês Ramos Feijó, da Coordenação de Ciências da Terra e Ecologia do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG)''. Consulted: 2010-03-24. (in Portuguese).
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Brazilian paleontologists
Brazilian herpetologists
1930 births
2011 deaths