Giovanni Domenico Nardo was an Italian

Italy

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 naturalist

Natural history

Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...

 from Venice

Venice

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, although he spent most of his life in Chioggia

Chioggia

Chioggia is a coastal town and comune of the province of Venice in the Veneto region of northern Italy.-Geography:...

, home port of the biggest fishing flotilla of the Adriatic.
He learned taxidermy and specimen preparation from his uncle, an Abbot. He went in a high school in Udine

Udine

Udine is a city and comune in northeastern Italy, in the middle of Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic sea and the Alps , less than 40 km from the Slovenian border. Its population was 99,439 in 2009, and that of its urban area was 175,000.- History :Udine is the historical...

and studied medicine in Padua

Padua

Padua is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 . The city is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, having...

, where he reorganized the zoological collections. In 1832 he reorganized the invertebrate collection at the Imperial Natural History Museum

Imperial Natural History Museum

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 in Vienna

Vienna

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 and in 1840 he became Fellow of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, an academy

Academy

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 whose aim is “to increase, promulgate, and safeguard the sciences, literature and the arts”. Nardo wrote hundreds of scientific publications ranging from medicine and social sciences, philology, technology, physics, but mostly on Venetian and Adriatic zoology. In marine biology

Marine biology

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 Nardo wrote on algae

Algae

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, marine invertebrates

Marine invertebrates

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, fishes and sea turtles. A vast collection of his manuscripts and his personal library is preserved in Natural History Museum of Venice

Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia

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According to WoRMS – World Register of Marine Species, Nardo is the naming authority for 144 marine taxa.

Publications

• Giovanni Domenico Nardo: Prospetto della fauna marina volgare del Veneto estuario..Venezia : G. Antonelli, 1847.(book)
• Giovanni Domenico Nardo: Sinonimia moderna delle specie registrate nell' opera intitolata: "Descrizione de' crostacei, de' testacei e de' pesci che abitano le lagune e golfo veneto rappresentati in figure à chiaro-scuro ed a colori dall' Abate S. Chieregheni.Venezia, 1847.(book)
• Giovanni Domenico Nardo: Sunto di alcune osservazioni anatomiche sull'intima struttura della cute de' pesci comparativamente considerata e sulle cause fisiologiche e fisico-chimiche della loro colorazione e decolorazione. Venezia : presso la segreteria dell'I.R. Istituto nel Palazzo Ducale, 1853 (Venezia : G. Cecchini).
• Giovanni Domenico Nardo: Notizie sui Mammali viventi nel mare Adriatico e specialmente sui Fisetteri presi in esso nello scorso secolo e nel presente. Venezia : Tip. Cecchini, 1854. Estratto da: Atti dell'i. r. Istituto veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, v. 4., ser. 2., puntata 4.
• Giovanni Domenico Nardo: Annotazioni illustranti cinquantaquattro specie di crostacei (Podottalmi, Stomapodi, Endriottalmi e Succhiatori) del Mare Adriatico precedute dalla storia antica e recente della carcinologia adriatica. Venezia : presso la segreteria dell'I.R. Istituto nel Palazzo Ducale : G. Antonelli, 1869.
• Giovanni Domenico Nardo: Note rischiaranti il valore significativo di alcune voci etrusche. Venezia : G. Antonelli, 1870.
• Giovanni Domenico Nardo: La pesca del pesce ne' Valli della Veneta Laguna al tempo delle prime bufere invernali detto volgarmente (Fraima) : monologo didascalico in versi nel dialetto de' pescatori chioggiotti colla versione nella lingua comune d'Italia : giuntovi un saggio di canti popolari nello stesso dialetto e di altri componimenti riferibili a costumanze di Chioggia con dichiarazione di molte voci volgari e con raffronti opportuni a filologico studio..Venezia : Tip. del Commercio di Marco Visentini, 1871. (book)
• Giovanni Domenico Nardo: Congetture sulla derivazione mitologica dell'antico nome volgare veneto arcumbè e del suo sinonimo italiano arco baleno che etimologicamente vi corrisponde. Venezia : Tipografia del Commercio di Marco Visentini, 1872.
• Giovanni Domenico Nardo: Sui vantaggi che possono aversi dal mettere a profitto le sabbie incolte del Litorale e le Maremme dell'Estuario veneto. Venezia : Tip. del giornale Il Tempo, 1874.
• Giovanni Domenico Nardo: Vocaboli e modi di dire greci dai quali sembrano derivare forme proprie del dialetto veneti, che si presentano come materiali di studio. Venezia : Tipografia Grimaldi e C., 1875
• Giovanni Domenico Nardo: Relazione sopra due opere sulla lingua romena offerte in omaggio al R. Istituto Veneto di Scienze dal prof. L. Frollo con una nota ed un elenco di voci romene confrontate con forme usate nel dialetto dei pescatori di Chioggia. Venezia : Tipografia Grimaldo e C., 1876.

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