Federico Craveri was a chemist, geologist, and naturalist who resided in Mexico for 18 years beginning in 1840. In 1847 he was joined for two years by his brother Ettore, who shared similar interests. Upon the death of their father, Ettore returned home to Italy to attend to the family museum in Brà, near Turin. Later, during his investigation of the economic potential of guano deposits on islands in the Gulf of California in 1856, Federico obtained specimens of a new species of murrelet, which, after considerable delay, was described and named by Tomasso Salvadori (1865) as Uria craveri (now Endomychura or Synthliboramphus craveri).