Editing Leonardo Fea

{{short description|Italian painter}}

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|birth_place       = Turin, Piedmont, [[Kingdom of Sardinia]]
|death_date        = {{Death date and age|1903|4|27|1852|7|24|df=y}}
|death_place       = Turin, [[Kingdom of Italy]]
|parents           = Paolo Fea and Anna Roda
|nationality       = Italian
|fields            = [[Malacology]], [[geology]]
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'''Leonardo Fea''' ([[Turin]] 24 July 1852 – Turin 27 April 1903)<ref name=DBI>{{Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani|title=FEA, Leonardo |volume=45 |url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/leonardo-fea_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |first=Maurizia |last=Alippi Cappelletti |accessdate=22 January 2019 }}</ref> was an Italian [[List of explorers|explorer]], [[zoologist]], [[Painting|painter]], and [[natural history|naturalist]].

==Biography==
Fea was born in [[Turin]], a son of Paolo Fea, who was professor of painting at [[Accademia Albertina]], and Anna Roda. In 1872 he became an assistant at the [[Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova|Museum of Natural History]] in [[Genoa]]. He made several foreign trips to collect specimens, including visits to [[Burma]] (1885–89) and the [[Cape Verde Islands]] (1898), the islands in the [[Gulf of Guinea]] ([[São Tomé Island|São Tomé]], [[Príncipe]], [[Bioko|Fernando Po]], [[Annobón]], 1900–02) and [[Kamerun|Cameroon]] and [[French Congo]] (1902).<ref name=DBI/> He spent four years in Burma, accumulating large collections of [[insects]] and birds. He then planned an expedition to [[Malaysia]], but his poor health made it necessary to choose somewhere with a drier climate, hence his visit to the Cape Verdes. He was disappointed by the amount of wildlife he found there, but was still able to collect forty-seven species of birds, eleven of which were new for the islands. His collections are in the [[Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova|Genoa museum]].

While on the [[Cape Verde Islands]] Fea collected a specimen of an unknown [[petrel]]. This was named [[Fea's petrel]] in 1900 by his friend [[Tommaso Salvadori]].

==Taxa named in his honour==
Several [[species]] have been named to commemorate his work as [[natural history|naturalist]] and [[zoologist]]:
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zoohistory.co.uk/downloads/AZoologicalWhoWasWho.pdf|title=A Zoological Who Was Who|author=Vaughan, Rob|year=2011|publisher=The Bartlett Society|access-date=8 November 2013}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name=Beolens>{{cite book|author1=Bo Beolens|author2=Michael Watkins|author3=Michael Grayson|title=The Eponym Dictionary of Birds|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=En4wBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT417 |year=2014 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-4729-0574-1 |pages=417–18}}</ref>

*Fea's short-legged toad, ''[[Brachytarsophrys feae]]'' {{small|([[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1887)}}<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Boulenger GA|authorlink=George Albert Boulenger|year=1887|title=Description of a new frog of the genus ''Megalophrys ''|journal=Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova|volume=4|pages=512–513|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/68236}}</ref>
*Fea's viper, ''[[Azemiops feae]]'' {{small|Boulenger, 1888}}<ref name="Blns2011">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}}. ("Fea", p. 88).</ref>
*Fea's muntjac, ''[[Muntiacus feae]]'' {{small|([[Oldfield Thomas|Thomas]], 1881)}}
*Fea's [[Murina|tube-nosed bat]], ''Murina feae'' {{small|([[Oldfield Thomas|Thomas]] & [[Giacomo Doria|Doria]], 1889)}}
*Fea's tree rat, ''[[Chiromyscus chiropus]]'' {{small|(Thomas, 1891)}}
*Fea's bow-fingered gecko, ''[[Cyrtodactylus feae]]'' {{small|(Boulenger, 1893)}}<ref name="Blns2011"/>
*Fea's petrel, ''[[Pterodroma feae]]'' {{small|([[Tommaso Salvadori|Salvadori]], 1900)}}
*Ugly worm lizard, ''[[Amphisbaenidae|Cynisca feae]]'' {{small|(Boulenger, 1906)}}<ref name="Blns2011"/>
*St. Thomas beaked snake, ''[[Rhinotyphlops feae|Letheobia feae]]'' {{small|(Boulenger, 1906)}}<ref name="Blns2011"/>
*Fea's chameleon, ''[[Trioceros|Trioceros feae]]'' {{small|(Boulenger, 1906)}}<ref name="Blns2011"/>
*the horseweed species ''[[Conyza feae]]'' {{small|(Bég.) Wild, 1969}}
*the woodlice genus ''[[Feadillo]]'' {{small|Schmalfuss & Ferrara, 1983}}

==References==
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==Further reading==
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*Conci C (1975). "''Repertorio delle biografie e bibliografie degli scrittori e cultori italiani di entomologia'' ". ''Mem. Soc. Ent. Ital'' '''48''' (4): 817–1069. (in Italian).
*Conci C, Poggi R (1996). "Iconography of Italian Entomologists, with essential biographical data". ''Mem. Soc. Ent. Ital'' '''75''': 159–382.
*Gestro A (1904). ["Fea, L."] ''Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Third Series'' '''1''' (= '''41'''): 95-152. (Portrait). (in Italian).
*Nalesini O (2009). ''L'Asia Sud-orientale nella cultura italiana. Bibliografia analitica ragionata, 1475-2005''. Rome: Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente. pp.&nbsp;19–20, 65–66. {{ISBN|978-88-6323-284-4}}. (in Italian).
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