Carlos de la Torre y Huerta
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Carlos de la Torre y Huerta (May 15, 1858 in Matanzas, Cuba – February 19, 1950 in Havana)[1] was a Cuban naturalist.[2]
He was the president of House of Representatives from November 1903 to April 1904.[3]
He is commemorated in the scientific names of a species of Cuban gecko, Sphaerodactylus torrei ,[4] as well as the genus Torreites of a now extinct rudist bivalve from the Cretaceous period.
References
[edit ]- ^ "Cuba Arqueologica - Personalidades de la arqueologia en Cuba y el Caribe". www.cubaarqueologica.org. Archived from the original on 2016年03月04日.
- ^ "Carlos de la Torre y la Huerta". Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on 2011年07月17日. Retrieved 2010年12月16日.
Carlos de la Torre y la Huerta was the foremost Cuban naturalist of his era, following in the footsteps of Felipe Poey. De la Torre was a naturalist of the old school, with broad interests in natural history. He focused his research on mollusks, both living and paleontological specimens. ...
- ^ Representantes, Cuba Congreso Cámara de (5 May 2019). "Compendio legislativo, 1902 a 1950" – via Google Books.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Torre", pp. 266-267).
