Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha (6 April 1928 – 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
(in Portuguese).
Authored taxa
Amapasaurus tetradactylus Atractus albuquerquei Atractus alphonsehogei Atractus snethlageae Colobosauroides cearensis Gonatodes eladioi Kinosternon scorpioides carajasensis Liophis carajasensis Micrurus paraensis Oxyrhopus melanogenys orientalis Placosoma cipoense
Eponyms Cunha is commemorated in the scientific names of two species of reptiles: Amphisbaena cunhai , a species of worm lizard; and Loxopholis osvaldoi , a species of spectacled lizard.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Cunha, p. 62; Osvaldo, p. 197).
References
External links
Vilar, Lucila; Santos, Diego; Bayma, Lílian (2011). "Museu Goeldi perde um dos seus mais importantes pesquisadores ". Consulted: 2010-03-24. (in Portuguese). Ramos Feijó, Maria Inês (2011). "Discurso em homenagem ao pesquisador Oswaldo Cunha " . Proferido por Maria Inês Ramos Feijó, da Coordenação de Ciências da Terra e Ecologia do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG). Consulted: 2010-03-24. (in Portuguese).