Marquise Marianna Panciatichi Ximenes d’Aragona Paulucci (3 February 1835 – 7 December 1919) was an Italian
malacologist
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who also made contributions to
botany
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and
ornithology
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.
A specialist in non-marine molluscs,
she published 32 malacological works, describing two genera and 159 species, and is commemorated in around 40 scientific names of organisms: primarily
molluscs
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is estim ...
, as well as the fossil shark ''Scyllium pauluccii'' and the bird subspecies ''
Sylvia atricapilla pauluccii''.
Life and work
She was born in
Florence
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into a noble family: the daughter of and Giulia De Saint Seigne. In 1853 she married Marquis Alessandro Anafesto Paulucci, a botanist and son of
Filippo Paulucci
Filippo Paulucci delle Roncole (11 September 1779 – 25 January 1849), also known as Filipp Osipovich Pauluchchi (russian: Филипп Осипович Паулуччи), was an Italian marquis and army officer, later a general at the services ...
.
In 1866 she published the first scientific work on the fossil gastropod Murex veranyi.
In 1887, after her husband's death, and ten years after her father died, the Marquise had to abandon her studies as well as her collections so she could devote her energies almost entirely to the administration of her significant family affairs. To do so, she donated her collections of non-marine molluscs (dating back to 1862, when she was just 27 years old) to the Natural History Museum at the
University of Florence
The University of Florence (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Firenze'', UniFI) is an Italian public research university located in Florence, Italy. It comprises 12 schools and has around 50,000 students enrolled.
History
The first universi ...
and her bird collection of about 1,200 specimens ones to the Municipality of
San Gimignano, Italy.
Her herb collection of 4,153 specimens belonging to 1,492 different species was donated to the Galileo Galilei Technical Institute. She died on 7 December 1919 in her villa near
Regello.
Selected publications
* Paulucci, M. (1878). Matériaux pour servir à l'étude de la faune malacologique terrestre et fluviatile de l'Italie et de ses îles.
* Paulucci, M. (1879). ''Escursione scientifica nella Calabria 1877-78: fauna malacologica; specie terrestri e fluviatili''. F. lli Bocca.
* Paulucci, M. (1879). ''Fauna malacologia: specie terrestri e fluviatili enumerate e descritte da M. Paulucci. Con tavole illustrative''. Coi tipi dell'Arte della stampa.
* Paulucci, M. P. (1881). ''Descrizione di una nuova specie del genere'Acme.
* Paulucci, M. (1882). ''Note malacologiche sulla fauna terrestre e fluviale dell'isola di Sardegna''. Tip. dell'ancora de G. Bargellini.
* Paulucci, M. (1886). GLI ALBERI LUNGO LE PUBBLICHE STRADE. ''Bullettino della R. Società Toscana di Orticultura'', ''1''(3), 69-71.
See also
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Timeline of women in science
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References
External links
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Italian malacologists
Italian naturalists
19th-century Italian zoologists
Conchologists
1835 births
1919 deaths
19th-century Italian women scientists
Women naturalists
Women zoologists
Scientists from Florence