Antonio Jatta
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Antonio Jatta (25 June 1852 – 4 August 1912) was an Italian politician and lichenologist. After completing his secondary studies at the Classical Lyceum Umberto I in Naples, at the age of 22 he graduated with honours in
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at the
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and in agriculture at the Royal Higher School of Agriculture in
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. Already at that time he distributed an
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-like work under the title ''Lichenes Italiae Meridionalis exsiccati''. He was a wealthy landowner who published ''Flora Italica Cryptogama'' in several volumes from 1900 to 1909. Jatta identified the lichens that were given in the 1915 list of the lichens of the
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, compiled by the botanists Carlo Pietro Stefano Sommier and
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. A 1962 publication by William Culberson noted that most of his
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names from the ''Flora Italica Cryptogama'' had not been included in
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's influential 10-volume work ''Catalog Lichenum Universalis'' (1922–1940), nor in
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's (then known as Ivan Lamb) 1963 followup work ''Index Nominum Lichenum''. Culberson catalogued 467 of Jatta's names to avoid the future publication of "superfluous or otherwise illegitimate names". Jatta was a member of the Italian Botanical Society, the
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, the Cryptogamological Society of Milan, the Geological Society of Rome, and the Society of Natural and Mathematical Sciences of Naples. In 1900, botanist
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published '' Jattaea'', a
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of
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in the family Calosphaeriaceae and named in honour of Jatta.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jatta, Antonio 1852 births 1912 deaths 19th-century Italian scientists 20th-century Italian biologists 19th-century Italian politicians University of Naples Federico II alumni Italian taxonomists Italian lichenologists People from Ruvo di Puglia Italian landowners 19th-century landowners