Raffaello Bellini


Raffaello Bellini was an Italian zoologist who specialised in mollusca.
Prof. Raffaello Bellini taught at Regia Scuola Tecnica Statale, Chivasso, He was a non resident Member of Società dei naturalisti in Napoli. Similarly to other distinguished naturalists he collaborated with the University of Naples Federico II.
Together with the leading scholars of malacology then present in Naples he contributed to a thorough knowledge of the fauna the Gulf of Naples. For nearly fifty years his catalog of molluscs constituted the only general contribution on marine malacofauna of the Gulf of Naples.
He described some new Molluscan species. Parts of his natural history collection are held by the Zoological Museum of Naples and by Centro Caprese Ignazio Cerio on Capri.

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