Francesco Saverio Monticelli (1863–1927) was an Italian zoologist at the
Zoological Museum of Naples (curator from 1900).
He was the
taxonomic
280px, Generalized scheme of taxonomy
Taxonomy is a practice and science concerned with classification or categorization. Typically, there are two parts to it: the development of an underlying scheme of classes (a taxonomy) and the allocation ...
author of several families of parasites which are still recognized such as the
Diplectanidae
The Diplectanidae are a family of monopisthocotylean monogeneans. They are all parasitic on the gills of fish (marine or freshwater). Diplectanids are small animals, generally around 1 mm in length. As parasites, they can be extremely numero ...
Monticelli, 1903 or the
Plectanocotylidae Monticelli, 1903.
Taxa named by Monticelli
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Taxa named by Francesco Saverio Monticelli
References
* Monticelli, F.S. (1888) Saggio di una morfologia dei Trematodi
Google Books* Monticelli, F.S. (1892) ''Cotylogaster'' Michaelis n g n sp. e revisione degli Aspidobothridae
Hathi Trust Digital Library* Monticelli, F.S. (1893) Studii sui Trematodi endoparassiti: Primo contributo di osservazioni sui distomidi
PDF in BHL* Monticelli, F.S. (1903) Per una nuova classificazione degli “Heterocotylea”. Monitore Zoologico Italiano, 14, 334–336.
Italian zoologists
1863 births
1927 deaths
Italian parasitologists
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