Salvatore Trinchese

Salvatore Trinchese (4 April 1836 – 11 January 1897) was an Italian zoologist who specialised in Mollusca.

Salvatore Trinchese was born in Martano, a small town in the province of Lecce in Apulia, on 4 April 1836.

Thus, in the same year he moved to Paris, where he worked as a researcher in the prestigious laboratories of Claude Bernard, Henri Milne-Edwards, Emile Blanchard and Charles-Philippe Robin.

During this period, he started his histological studies on the nervous system and on the systematic microscopy on gastropod molluscs.

In 1865, he started to teach mineralogy, geology, zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Genoa.