Carlos de la Torre y Huerta

Carlos de la Torre y Huerta (born May 15, 1858 in Matanzas, Cuba, died February 19, 1950 in Havana)[1] was a Cuban naturalist.[2]

Huerta circa 1915

He was the president of House of Representatives from November 1903 to April 1904.[3]

He is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of Cuban gecko, Sphaerodactylus torrei.[4]

References

1. http://www.cubaarqueologica.org/html/person/torres.htm
2. "Carlos de la Torre y la Huerta". Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-12-16. Carlos de la Torre y la Huerta was the foremost Cuban naturalist of his era, following in the footsteps of Felipe Poey. De la Torre was a naturalist of the old school, with broad interests in natural history. He focused his research on mollusks, both living and paleontological specimens. ...
3. Representantes, Cuba Congreso Cámara de (5 May 2019). "Compendio legislativo, 1902 a 1950" – via Google Books.
4. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Torre", pp. 266-267).