Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti

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Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti (4 December 1735, Vienna – 17 February 1805, Vienna) was an

Italian
origin.

Laurenti is considered the

Proteus anguinus, purportedly collected from cave waters in Slovenia (or possibly western Croatia
); this description represented one of the first published accounts of a cave animal in the western world, although Proteus anguinus was not recognized as a cave animal at the time.

In the past, Laurenti's authorship of his work has been doubted several times and attributed to the Hungarian scientist Jacob Joseph Winterl, but without substantive evidence.[1]

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