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Giovanni Domenico Nardo
Summary
Giovanni Domenico Nardo (4 March 1802 – 7 April 1877) was an Italian naturalist from Venice, although he spent most of his life in Chioggia, home port of the biggest fishing flotilla of the Adriatic.
He learned taxidermy and specimen preparation from his uncle, an abbot. He went in a high school in Udine
and studied medicine in Padua, where he reorganized the zoological collections. In 1832 he reorganized the invertebrate collection at the Imperial Natural History Museum in Vienna and in 1840 he became Fellow of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, an academy whose aim is "to increase, promulgate, and safeguard the sciences, literature and the arts". Nardo wrote hundreds of scientific publications ranging from medicine and social sciences, philology, technology, physics, but mostly on Venetian and Adriatic zoology. In marine biology, Nardo wrote on algae, marine invertebrates, fishes and sea turtles. A vast collection of his manuscripts and his personal library is preserved in the Natural History Museum of Venice.
According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), Nardo is the .
See
Giovanni Domenico Nardo: Prospetto della fauna marina volgare del Veneto estuario..Venezia : G. Antonelli, 1847.(book) it
Giovanni Domenico Nardo: Sinonimia moderna delle specie registrate nell' opera intitolata: "Descrizione de' crostacei, de' testacei e de' pesci che abitano le lagune e golfo veneto rappresentati in figure à chiaro-scuro ed a colori dall' Abate S. Chieregheni.Venezia, 1847.(book) it
Giovanni Domenico Nardo: Sunto di alcune osservazioni anatomiche sull'intima struttura della cute de' pesci comparativamente considerata e sulle cause fisiologiche e fisico-chimiche della loro colorazione e decolorazione. Venezia : presso la segreteria dell'I.R. Istituto nel Palazzo Ducale, 1853 (Venezia : G. Cecchini). it
Giovanni Domenico Nardo: Notizie sui Mammali viventi nel mare Adriatico e specialmente sui Fisetteri presi in esso nello scorso secolo e nel presente. Venezia : Tip. Cecchini, 1854. Estratto da: Atti dell'i.
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