Abdem Ramón Lancini Villalaz
Venezuelan zoologist (1934-2007)
Abdem Ramon Lancini-Villalaz ((1934-08-28)August 28, 1934 – (2007-11-10)November 10, 2007), also cited as Abdem R. Lancini, was a Venezuelan herpetologist who specialized in snakes.
Biography
Lancini completed his schooling in Caracas. At the age of 17, he joined a group of students who demonstrated for democracy and human rights against the junta that came to power in 1948 through a military-led coup d'état. He was arrested and taken to a secret concentration camp on the island of Guasina in the Orinoco Delta, where he spent seven years as a political prisoner. During this time, he discovered his interest in reptiles and collected various specimens while making extensive notes and drawings in a notebook.
After the government changed in January 1958, leading to the first free elections, he was released from Guasina and returned to Caracas. There he soon joined the zoology department of the Museo de Ciencias Naturales (MCN). That same year, he went to the snake laboratory at the Instituto Butantan in São Paulo, Brazil, where he trained under the ophiologists Alphonse Richard Hoge and Hélio E. Belluomini. He then took courses in physical geography, phytogeography, and climatology at the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (1959) and studied arachnids and snakes at the Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1960), both in Rio de Janeiro.
In 1962, Lancini became curator of herpetology at MCN, succeeding Agustín Fernández-Yépez, an ichthyologist at the museum, and Janis A. Roze, a Latvian immigrant and professor at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, who had informally curated the collection.
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