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    Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (sometimes Latinized as Johannes Antonius Scopolius) (3 June 1723 – 8 May 1788) was an Italian physician and naturalist. His biographer...
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  • astronomer Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723–1788), Italian physician and naturalist Giovanni Semerano (1913–2005), Italian philologist Giovanni Sgambati (1841-1914)...
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    southern Europe and North Africa. While it was first described by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1772, this mushroom was a known favorite of early rulers of...
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    Barn owl (category Taxa named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli)
    first described in 1769 by the Tyrolean physician and naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in his Anni Historico-Naturales. He gave it the scientific name...
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    Spotted dove (category Taxa named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli)
    dove was formally described in 1786 by the Austrian naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli and given the binomial name Columba chinensis. This species was...
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    Luzon bleeding-heart (category Taxa named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli)
    Chordata Class: Aves Order: Columbiformes Family: Columbidae Genus: Gallicolumba Species: G. luzonica Binomial name Gallicolumba luzonica (Scopoli, 1786)...
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    a Palearctic moth of the family Geometridae that was named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1763. This moth is mostly white with brownish patches across...
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    Macrolepiota procera (category Taxa named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli)
    The fungus was first described in 1772 by Italian naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, who named it Agaricus procerus. Rolf Singer transferred it to...
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    Linnaeus published the tree's name as Bignonia catalpa in 1753. Giovanni Antonio Scopoli established the genus Catalpa in 1777. The bean-like seed pod is...
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    species was scientifically described in 1763 by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli as Curculio pulverulentus Scopoli, 1763. This widespread, but quite rare species...
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