Antoine Joseph Risso (Antonio Giuseppe Risso; August 7, 1777 – August 25, 1845) was an Italian-French naturalist. He is denoted by the author abbreviation Risso when citing a botanical name.
Risso was born in Nice, then part of 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 (1818-22). The Risso's dolphin was named after him.
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- Risso A. 1826. Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Tome quatrième. 439 pp., 12 plates. Paris. (Levrault).
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Further reading
- (French) Bourguignat J. R. 1861. Étude synonymique sur les mollusques des Alpes maritimes publiés par A. Risso en 1826. Paris: J.B. Baillière.
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