Luigi Bellardi

{{Short description|Italian malacologist and entomologist}} {{Infobox person | name = Luigi Bellardi | image = Ritratto di Luigi Bellardi, ante 1899 - Accademia delle Scienze di Torino - Ritratti di soci 0023 B.jpg | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1818|5|18}} | birth_place = [[Genoa]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1889|9|17|1818|5|18}} | death_place = [[Turin]] | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = |other_names = | known_for = | education = | employer = | occupation =Malacologist and entomologist | title = | height = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse =| partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Luigi Bellardi''' (18 May 1818 – 17 September 1889) was an Italian [[malacologist]] and [[entomologist]] who specialised in [[Diptera]].

Bellardi was born in [[Genoa]] and died in [[Turin]]. His collection is in the [[Turin Museum of Natural History]]

In 1872, then a professor at Liceo Gioberti, Luigi Bellardi began ''I molluschi dei terreni terziari del Piemonte della Liguria'', a work on molluscs of the Middle and Early [[Tertiary period|Tertiary]] in the [[Mediterranean basin]]. In 1888 he published the five parts dealing with [[Cephalopoda]], [[Sea butterfly|Pteropoda]] and the first families of [[Gastropoda]]. In 1889 his student Prof. [[Federico Sacco]] (1864–1948) took over this work and published 25 more sections partly based on Bellardi’s work on this species-rich fossil group.

A list of his publications can be found at the database [[WoRMS]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=sourcelist|title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species|website=www.marinespecies.org}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}} *Conci, C. 1975: Repertorio delle biografie e bibliografie degli scrittori e cultori italiani di entomologia. ''Mem. Soc. Ent. Ital''. 48 1969(4) 817–1069 843–844 *Conci, C. & Poggi, R. 1996: Iconography of Italian Entomologists, with essential biographical data. ''Mem. Soc. Ent. Ital''. 75 159–382, 418 Fig.

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