Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha

Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha (6 April 1928 – 11 March 2011) was a Brazilian paleontologist and herpetologist. Da Cunha was born in Belém, and studied zoology at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) of Manaus.

Authored Taxa

 * Amapasaurus tetradactylus Cunha 1970
 * Atractus albuquerquei Cunha & Nascimento, 1983
 * Atractus alphonsehogei Cunha & Nascimento, 1983
 * Atractus snethlageae Cunha & Nascimento, 1983
 * Colobosauroides cearensis Cunha, Lima-Verde & Lima, 1991
 * Gonatodes eladioi Nascimento, Ávila-Pires & Cunha, 1987
 * Kinosternon scorpioides carajasensis Cunha 1970
 * Liophis carajasensis Cunha, Nascimento & Ávila-Pires, 1985
 * Micrurus paraensis Cunha & Nascimento, 1973
 * Oxyrhopus melanogenys orientalis Cunha & Nascimento, 1983
 * Placosoma cipoense Cunha, 1966

Eponyms
Cunha is commemorated in the scientific names of two species of reptiles: Amphisbaena cunhai Hoogmoed & Ávila-Pires, 1991, a species of worm lizard; and Loxopholis osvaldoi Ávila-Pires, 1995, a species of spectacled lizard.