Carlo Alzona (1881 – 1961) was an Italian

medical doctor A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis ...

, an

entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

and a

malacologist Malacology, from Ancient Greek μαλακός (''malakós''), meaning "soft", and λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (molluscs or mollusks), the second-largest ...

. He was born on 26 May 1881 in

Turin Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is main ...

. He was the director of the Muséum de

Genoa Genoa ( ; ; ) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy. As of 2025, 563,947 people live within the city's administrative limits. While its metropolitan city has 818,651 inhabitan ...

from 1947 to 1955. He specialised in

Coleoptera Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 40 ...

. Alzona died on 14 May 1961 in

Species named after him

* ''Cerastus alzonai'' Bacci, 1940 * ''

Chilostoma cingulatum ''Chilostoma cingulatum'' is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the true snails. ;Subspecies: * ''Chilostoma cingulatum adamii'' (Pini, 1876) * ''Chilostoma ci ...

alzonai'' K. L. Pfeiffer, 1951MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. ''Chilostoma cingulatum alzonai'' K. L. Pfeiffer, 1951. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1051131 on 2024-11-14

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Carlo Alzona
at Conchology 1881 births 1961 deaths Italian entomologists Italian malacologists 20th-century Italian physicians Coleopterists Scientists from Turin 20th-century Italian zoologists Physicians from Turin {{Italy-med-bio-stub