Carlo Violani (born 1946), is an Italian zoologist at the University of Pavia department of animal biology.name: Violania Jobling, J. A. (2018). Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.) (2018). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. A genus was named for the author, Violania, for a taxonomic treatment of the contentious genus Platycercus (rosellas), recognised as a subgenus Platycercus (Violania) Wells & Wellington, 1992 by later authorities.
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