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Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha

Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha
Born April 6, 1930
Belém, Brazil
Died Belém
March 11, 2011 (2011-03-12) (aged 80)
Nationality Brazilian
Fields Zoology
paleontology
Herpetology
Institutions Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Alma mater Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)

Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha (6 April 1930 – 11 March 2011) was a Brazilian paleontologist and herpetologist. Da Cunha was born in Belém, and studied zoology at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) of Manaus.

Amphisbaena cunhai & Ávila-Pires, 1991, a species of worm lizard, is named in his honor.


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