Raffaello Bellini
Italian zoologist
Raffaello Bellini (1874 – 1930) was an Italian zoologist.
Biography
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 (Oronzio Gabriele Costa, Achille Costa, Arcangelo Scacchi, etc.), he collaborated with the University of Naples Federico II.
Together with the leading scholars of malacology then present in Naples (Ignazio Cerio, Tommaso di Maria Allery Monterosato, etc.), he contributed to a thorough knowledge of the fauna of the Gulf of Naples. For nearly fifty years, his catalogue 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.
Works
Nautilus subasii, nuova forma del Lias superiore. Bollettino della Società dei Naturalisti in Napoli, s. 2, 29: 17-19.
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