Marianna Paulucci

Marquise Marianna Panciatichi Ximenes d’Aragona Paulucci was an Italian noblewoman and naturalist. She contributed to malacology, botany and ornithology. A specialist in non-marine molluscs, she published 32 malacological works, describing two genera and 159 species, and is commemorated in around 40 scientific names of organisms: primarily molluscs, as well as the fossil shark Scyllium pauluccii and the bird subspecies Sylvia atricapilla pauluccii.