Abdem Ramón Lancini Villalaz

Abdem Ramon Lancini-Villalaz ( – ), also cited as Abdem R. Lancini, was a Venezuelan herpetologist who specialized in snakes.

Biography Lancini completed his schooling in Caracas. At the age of 17, he joined a group of students who demonstrated for democracy and human rights against the junta that came to power in 1948 through a military-led coup d'état. He was arrested and taken to a secret concentration camp on the island of Guasina in the Orinoco Delta, where he spent seven years as a political prisoner. During this time, he discovered his interest in reptiles and collected various specimens while making extensive notes and drawings in a notebook.

Eponymous taxa The frog species Pristimantis lancinii and the colubrid snake Atractus lancinii are named after Lancini.