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.
Eponyms.
Cunha is commemorated in the scientific names of two species of reptiles: "Amphisbaena cunhai" , a species of worm lizard; and "Loxopholis osvaldoi" , a species of spectacled lizard.