Tommaso Salvadori

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Tommaso Salvadori.
Tommaso Salvadori.

Tommaso Adlard Salvadori (September 30, 1835 – October 9, 1923) was an Italian zoologist and ornithologist.

Salvadori was born in Porto San Giorgio. He later studied medicine in Pisa and Rome.

He participated in Garibaldi's expedition in Sicily, serving as a medical officer.

He was assistant in the Museum of Zoology in 1863, becoming Vice-Director of the Royal Museum of Natural History in Turin in 1879. He was a specialist in birds of Asia. In 1880, he was on leave to the British Museum of Natural History in London to work on their catalogues.

Salvadori's Pheasant (Lophura inornata) is named after him.

The Papua monitor, Varanus salvadorii (also known as Salvadori's monitor, Crocodile monitor, or Artelia) is also named after him.

He died in Turin, age 88.

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