Biography and bibliography of the Italian malacologist Laura Gambetta (b.1901)

The sparse evidence relating to the life of the Italian malacologist Laura Gambetta (b.1901) has been brought together to provide a biography, a chronological list of her papers ordered (where possible) by day, month, and year of publication and a list of the seventeen taxa she described. Research has included published sources, direct examination of Gambetta’s papers, and research at the Archivio Storico dell’Università di Torino [University of Turin Historical Archives], Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino [Regional Museum of Natural Sciences, Turin], and Museo di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova [Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum, Genoa].