Luisa Gianferrari

From 1920 until 1957 she was a member of the Società Italiana di Scienza Naturali and from 1922 until 1948 was the curator of zoology at the Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano.  Between 1923 and 1939 she worked mostly on fishes.  Starting on 1940 she had an interest on human genetics working first as a researcher and later as director of the Centro di Studi di Genetica Umana dell’Università di Milano.

Involvement in Hypogean Fish Research

She published eight articles on hypogean fishes and described Uegitglanis zammaranoi (Gianferrari 1923).