biography
| name: |
Vallisnieri, Antonio
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pronunciation:
[valisnyayree]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1631–1730)
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| biography:
| Naturalist, born in Modena, N Italy. He became professor of medicine at Padua, made important studies of the reproductive systems of insects, and wrote treatises on the ostrich (1712) and the chameleon (1715). The waterweed Vallisneria spiralis is named after him. |
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