Giuseppe Gagliardi Urrutia

Luis Alberto Giussepe Gagliardi-Urrutia (born 31 July 1978) is a Peruvian herpetologist and zoologist. He has a research career focused on the biodiversity, systematics, and taxonomy of amphibians and reptiles. He has participated in the description of a new genus and ten new species.

Biography Since 2001, Gagliardi-Urrutia has participated as coordinator and specialist in numerous scientific expeditions to the Peruvian Amazon. He was a researcher in the PIBA (Programa de Investigación en Biodiversidad Amazónica) at the Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana between 2012 and 2016.

He earned his bachelor's degree in biological sciences in 2002 and his professional degree in Biology in 2010 from the Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana. He later obtained a PhD in Zoology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.

Taxa described

Genera Dryaderces Jungfer, Faivovich, Padial, Castroviejo-Fisher, Lyra, Berneck, Iglesias, Kok, MacCulloch, Rodrigues, Verdade, Torres-Gastello, Chaparro, Valdujo, Reichle, Moravec, Gvoždík, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Ernst, De la Riva, Means, Lima, Señaris, Wheeler & Haddad, 2013

Species Adenomera glauciae Carvalho, Simões, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Rojas-Runjaic, Haddad & Castroviejo-Fisher, 2020 Allobates juami Simões, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Rojas-Runjaic & Castroviejo-Fisher, 2018 Allobates liniaureum Jaramillo-Martínez, Vilà, Guayasamin, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Rojas-Runjaic, Simões, Chaparro, Aguilar-Manihuari & Castroviejo-Fisher, 2025 Allobates sieggreenae Gagliardi-Urrutia, Castroviejo-Fisher, Rojas-Runjaic, Jaramillo, Solís & Simões, 2021 Centrolene sabini Catenazzi, Von May, Lehr, Gagliardi-Urrutia & Guayasamin, 2012 Phyzelaphryne nimio Simões, Costa, Rojas-Runjaic, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Sturaro, Peloso & Castroviejo-Fisher, 2018 Pristimantis academicus Lehr, Moravec & Gagliardi-Urrutia, 2010 Pristimantis iiap Padial, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Chaparro & Gutiérrez, 2016 Pristimantis padiali Moravec, Lehr, Pérez Peña, López, Gagliardi-Urrutia & Tuanama, 2010 Tepuihyla shushupe Ron, Venegas, Ortega-Andrade, Gagliardi-Urrutia & Salerno, 2016