Anastasio Cocco
Deceased Person
1799 – 1854
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Who was Anastasio Cocco?
Anastacio Cocco sometimes Anastasio - 26 February 1854, Messina was an Italian naturalist who specialised in marine biology.
Cocco was a pharmacist. He was especially interested in fish and described several taxa from the Straits of Messina. In 1852 his friend the German scientist Eduard Rüppell named the fish Microichthys coccoi to honour his name. He was a friend and correspondent of many other naturalists notably Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Antoine Risso and August David Krohn.
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