Antoine Risso
Niçard naturalist

Antoine Risso

BiographyBibliographyListsAlso Viewed
The basics
Quick facts
Intro
Niçard naturalist
A.K.A.
Risso
Gender:
Male
Places:
FranceItaly
Is:
ZoologistScientistBotanistNaturalistCarcinologist
Work field:
BiologyScienceSocial science
Birth:
8 April 1777(Nice, arrondissement of Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)
Death:
25 August 1845(Nice, arrondissement of Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)
Star sign:
Aries
Biography menu
Menu

Jump to

Introduction Genera and species named after him Genera and species named by him
The details
Biography

Introduction

Giuseppe Antonio Risso (8 April 1777 – 25 August 1845), called Antoine Risso, was a Niçard naturalist.

Risso was born in the city of Nice in the Duchy of Savoy, and studied under Giovanni Battista Balbis. He published Ichthyologie de Nice (1810), Histoire naturelle de l'Europe méridionale (1826) and Histoire Naturelle des Orangers (1818–1822). Risso's dolphin was named after him. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Risso when citing a botanical name; the same abbreviation is used for zoological names.

Genera and species named after him

  • Rissoa Freminville in Desmarest, 1814: a genus of gastropods
  • Rissoella J. Agardh, 1849: a genus of algae
  • Electrona risso (Cocco, 1829): a lanternfish

Genera and species named by him

He named 549 marine genera and species. IPNI gives 81 records for Risso.