Antoine Risso

Giuseppe Antonio Risso (8 April 1777 – 25 August 1845), called Antoine Risso, was a naturalist from Nice.^[1]

Antoine Risso
Antoine Risso
Born	(1777-04-08)8 April 1777 Nice, Duchy of Savoy, Kingdom of Sardinia (in modern France)
Died	25 August 1845(1845-08-25) (aged 68) Nice, Kingdom of Sardinia
Scientific career
Fields	natural history
Author abbrev. (botany)	Risso
Author abbrev. (zoology)	Risso

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.^[2] He is denoted by the author abbreviation Risso when citing a botanical name;^[3] the same abbreviation is used for zoological names.

Genera and species named after him

• Rissoa Freminville in Desmarest, 1814: a genus of gastropods
• Rissoella Gray, 1847: a genus of gastropod
• Rissoella J.Agardh, 1849: a genus of red algae^[4]
• Electrona risso (Cocco, 1829): a lanternfish
• Polyacanthonotus rissoanus (De Filippi & Vérany, 1857): smallmouth spiny eel

Genera and species named by him

See also: Category:Taxa named by Antoine Risso

He named 549 marine genera and species.^[5] IPNI gives 81 records for Risso.^[6]

Bibliography

• (in French) Risso A. (1818). "Memoire sur quelques Gasteropodes nouveaux, Nudibranches et Tectibranches observes dans la Mer de Nice". Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle et des Arts 87: 368–377.
• (in French) Risso A. (1826–1827). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe Méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Paris, Levrault.
  • (1826). Vol. 1: XII + 448 pp., 1 plate.
  • (November 1827). Vol. 2: VII + 482 pp., 8 pl. (flowers).
  • (September 1827). Vol. 3: XVI + 480 pp., 14 pl. (fishes).
  • (November 1826). Vol. 4: IV + 439 pp., 12 pl. (molluscs).
  • (November 1827). Vol. 5: VIII + 400 pp., 10 pl. (other invertebrates).
• Emig C. C., 2012. Révision des espèces de brachiopodes décrites par A. Risso. Carnets de Géologie / Notebooks on Geology, Article 2012/02 (CG2012_A02) Archived 3 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine with the scientific bibliography of A. Risso in an appendix

References

1. David M. Damkaer (2002). "Antoine Joseph Risso". The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History, Volume 1. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 240. American Philosophical Society. pp. 163–167. ISBN 978-0-87169-240-5.
2. Sarah G. Allen, Joe Mortenson & Sophie Webb (2011). "Risso's dolphin, Grampus griseus". Field Guide to Marine Mammals of the Pacific Coast: Baja, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia. California Natural History Guides. University of California Press. pp. 301–308. ISBN 978-0-520-26545-5.
3. R. K. Brummitt & C. E. Powell, ed. (1992). Authors of Plant Names: a List of Authors of Scientific Names of Plants, with Recommended Standard Forms of their Names, Including Abbreviations. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 0-947643-44-3.
4. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Rissoella J.Agardh, 1849". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
5. World Register of Marine Species: author Risso
6. "International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org.

Further reading

• Jules René Bourguignat (1861). Étude synonymique sur les mollusques des Alpes maritimes publiés par A. Risso en 1826 (in French). Paris: J. B. Baillière.

External links

• Works by or about Antoine Risso at the Internet Archive
• Site Risso: Joseph Antoine RISSO - 1777 - 1845 Nice (Nissart) : sa Biographie avec references