Marianna Paulucci

Marquise Marianna Panciatichi Ximenes d’Aragona Paulucci (February 3, 1835 – December 7, 1919) was an Italian malacologist who also made contributions to botany and ornithology.[1][2] A specialist in non-marine molluscs,[3] she published 32 malacological works, describing two genera and 159 species,[4] and is commemorated in around 40 scientific names of organisms: primarily molluscs, as well as the fossil shark Scyllium pauluccii and the bird subspecies Sylvia atricapilla pauluccii.[5]

Marianna Panciatichi Ximenes d’Aragona was born in Florence into a noble family: the daughter of Ferdinando Panciatichi Ximenes d'Aragona and Giulia De Saint Seigne. In 1853 she married Marquis Alessandro Anafesto Paulucci, a botanist and son of Filippo Paulucci.[1][6]

References

  1. 1 2 Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie; Joy Dorothy Harvey (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. Taylor & Francis. p. 991. ISBN 978-0-415-92040-7.
  2. Mary R. S. Creese; Thomas M. Creese (2004). Ladies in the Laboratory 2. Scarecrow Press. pp. 189–192. ISBN 978-0-8108-4979-2.
  3. Manganelli, Giuseppe; Cianfanelli, Simone; Talenti, Enrico (2002). "Il contributo de Marianna Paulucci alla conoscenza della malacofauna italiana" [The contribution of Marianna Paulucci to the knowledge on Italian malacofauna]. Lavori della Societa Italiana di Malacologia (in Italian) 25: 13–30.
  4. "Marianna Paulucci". Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Firenze. 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
  5. Manganelli, G; Lori, E.; Cianfanelli, S. (2009). "Eponyms honouring Marianna Paulucci (1835–1919)". Archives of Natural History 36 (1): 48–52. doi:10.3366/E0260954108000612.
  6. Arrigoni degli Oddi, E. (1921). "Della vita e delle opere della marchesa M. Paulucci, malacologa italiana" [On the life and works of the Marquise M. Paolucci, Italian malacologist]. Atti del Reale Istituto veneto di scienze lettere ed arti (in Italian) 80: 59–70.

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