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Laurenti is considered theauctor of theclass Reptilia (reptiles) through his authorship ofSpecimen Medicum, Exhibens Synopsin Reptilium Emendatam cum Experimentis circa Venena (1768) on the poisonous function ofreptiles andamphibians. This was an important book inherpetology, defining thirty genera of reptiles;Carl Linnaeus's10th edition ofSystema Naturae in 1758 defined only ten genera.Specimen Medicum contains a description of the blind salamander (amphibian):Proteus anguinus, purportedly collected from cave waters inSlovenia (or possibly westernCroatia); this description represented one of the first published accounts of a cave animal in the western world, althoughProteus anguinus was not recognized as a cave animal at the time.
In the past, Laurenti's authorship of his work has been doubted several times and attributed to the Hungarian scientist Jacob Joseph Winterl, but without substantive evidence.[1]
^Rieck, Werner; Hallmann, Gerhard; Bischoff, Wolfgang, eds. (2001).Die Geschichte der Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde im deutschsprachigen Raum: eine historische Dokumentation der Entwicklung der Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde, insbesondere aber eine Chronik der Vereinigung "Salamander", Gesellschaft für Terrarienfreunde, und der "Deutschen Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde e.V." (DGHT). Mertensiella. Rheinbach: Dt. Ges. für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde.ISBN978-3-9806577-3-0.
