Leonardo Fea (1852 - 1903) was an Italian explorer, zoologist, painter and naturalist. Fea was born in Turin, and became an assistant at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova the Museum of Natural History in Genoa. He made several foreign trips to collect specimens, including visits to Burma (1885) and the Cape Verde Islands (1898), islands in the Gulf of Guinea (1899/1900) and Portuguese West Africa. He spent four years in Burma, accumulating large collections of insects and birds.

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  • Leonardo Fea (1852 - 1903) was an Italian explorer, zoologist, painter and naturalist. Fea was born in Turin, and became an assistant at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova the Museum of Natural History in Genoa. He made several foreign trips to collect specimens, including visits to Burma (1885) and the Cape Verde Islands (1898), islands in the Gulf of Guinea (1899/1900) and Portuguese West Africa. 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 Genoa museum. While on the Cape Verde Islands Fea collected a specimen of an unknown petrel. This was named Fea's Petrel in 1899 by his friend Tommaso Salvadori. Several species named to commemorate his work as naturalist and zoologist: Fea’s Viper, Azemiops feae Fea’s Petrel, Pterodroma feae Fea's tree rat, Chiromyscus chiropus (Thomas 1891) Fea’s Muntjac, Muntiacus feae (Thomas & Doria 1889)
  • Leonardo Fea est un explorateur, un zoologiste et un artiste italien du XIX siècle, né le 24 juillet 1852 à Turin et mort le 27 avril 1903 dans cette même ville.
  • Nacque a Torino, e divenne assistente al Museo di Storia Naturale di Genova. Fece molti viaggi all'estero per acquisire nuovi esemplari da esporre arrivando anche a Burma e nelle isole Capo Verde. Fea passò quattro anni a Burma, accumulando grandi collezioni di insetti e uccelli. Poi l'esploratore organizzò una spedizione in Malesia, ma il suo debole stato di salute rese necessaria la scelta di una meta con un clima più secco, da qui la visita all'arcipelago della Macaronesia. Fu deluso dalla quantità di animali selvaggi che trovò nell'arcipelago, ma riuscì ugualmente a collezionare quarantasette specie di uccelli, undici delle quali nuove per le isole. Fra questi c'era una nuova Procellaria, chiamata dal suo amico Tommaso Salvadori nel 1899 Procellaria di Fea. Anche alcune specie burmesi furono chiamate col nome di Fea, come il Muntjac di Fea, la Vipera di Fea, lo Scoiattolo di Fea e il Tordo di Fea.
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  • Leonardo Fea (1852 - 1903) was an Italian explorer, zoologist, painter and naturalist. Fea was born in Turin, and became an assistant at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova the Museum of Natural History in Genoa. He made several foreign trips to collect specimens, including visits to Burma (1885) and the Cape Verde Islands (1898), islands in the Gulf of Guinea (1899/1900) and Portuguese West Africa. He spent four years in Burma, accumulating large collections of insects and birds.
  • Leonardo Fea est un explorateur, un zoologiste et un artiste italien du XIX siècle, né le 24 juillet 1852 à Turin et mort le 27 avril 1903 dans cette même ville.
  • Nacque a Torino, e divenne assistente al Museo di Storia Naturale di Genova. Fece molti viaggi all'estero per acquisire nuovi esemplari da esporre arrivando anche a Burma e nelle isole Capo Verde. Fea passò quattro anni a Burma, accumulando grandi collezioni di insetti e uccelli. Poi l'esploratore organizzò una spedizione in Malesia, ma il suo debole stato di salute rese necessaria la scelta di una meta con un clima più secco, da qui la visita all'arcipelago della Macaronesia.
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  • Leonardo Fea
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