Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha

Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha
Born April 6, 1930
Belém, Brazil
Died Belém
March 11, 2011 (2011-03-12) (aged 80)
Nationality Brazilian
Fields Zoology
paleontology
Herpetology
Institutions Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Alma mater Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)

Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha (6 April 1930 11 March 2011) was a Brazilian paleontologist and herpetologist. Da Cunha was born in Belém, and studied zoology at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) of Manaus.

Selected works

Authored Taxa

  • Amapasaurus tetradactylus Cunha 1970
  • Atractus albuquerquei Cunha & Nascimento, 1983
  • Atractus alphonsehogei Cunha & Nascimento, 1983
  • Atractus snethlageae Cunha & Nascimento, 1983
  • Colobosauroides cearensis Cunha, Lima-Verde & Lima, 1991
  • Gonatodes eladioi Nascimento, Ávila-Pires & Cunha, 1987
  • Kinosternon scorpioides carajasensis Cunha 1970
  • Liophis carajasensis Cunha, Nascimento & Ávila-Pires, 1985
  • Micrurus paraensis Cunha & Nascimento, 1973
  • Oxyrhopus melanogenys orientalis Cunha & Nascimento, 1983
  • Placosoma cipoense Cunha, 1966

Eponyms

Amphisbaena cunhai Hoogmoed & Ávila-Pires, 1991, a species of worm lizard, is named in his honor.[1]

References

  1. Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins; Michael Grayson. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Cunha", p. 62).
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