Alfred Duvaucel
Alfred Duvaucel (1793,
Journeys in South and Southeast Asia
In December 1817, Duvaucel left France for
In December 1818,
Duvaucel set off to
He returned to Chandernagore, from where he made several excursions. In July 1821, he embarked on the
Duvaucel died in August 1824 in
Publications
In February 1820, the
In spring 1822, the Asiatick Society published his article "On the Black Deer of Bengal" including a drawing of a
Legacy
The Paris Museum of Natural History received nearly 2000 animals collected jointly by Duvaucel and Diard during their stay of more than a year in the
In 1821, Raffles published descriptions of the species jointly collected by Duvaucel and Diard in Sumatra, including first descriptions of the
The many drawings, skeletons, skins and other animal parts that Duvaucel sent to the Paris Museum of Natural History included head, skin and paws of a species from the mountains north of India that his stepfather's brother
Alfred Duvaucel is commemorated in the scientific names of a number of species:
- the barasingha Cervus duvaucelii — described by his stepfather Georges Cuvier in 1823;[15]
- the scarlet-rumped trogon Harpactes duvaucelii — described by Coenraad Jacob Temminckin 1824;
- the river lapwing Rene Primevere Lessonin 1826;
- the Himalayan goral Naemorhedus duvaucelii — described by Naemorhedus goral described in 1825 by Thomas Hardwicke;[16]
- the Pachysoma duvaucelii, a subspecies of the lesser short-nosed fruit bat — described by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1828;
- the moth Psichotoe duvaucelii — described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1829;[17]
- Duvaucel's barbet blue-eared barbet;[22]
- Duvaucel's cuckoo Bubutus duvaucelii — described by Lesson in 1831 as living in Sumatra;Rhinortha by Shelley in 1891 as a type of Raffles's malkoha;[24]
- the Indian squid Loligo duvaucelii — described by Uroteuthis duvauceli;[25]
- Duvaucel's gecko Hoplodactylus duvaucelii — described by André Marie Constant Duméril and Gabriel Bibron in 1836;[26]
- the Indian bee species Macrocera duvaucelii — described by Amédée Louis Michel Lepeletier in 1842 is synonymous to Tetralonia duvaucelii;[27]
- the freshwater fish Rohita duvaucelii — described by Achille Valenciennes in 1842 is a junior synonym of Osteobrama vigorsii endemic to India;[28]
- the olive barb Barbus duvaucelii — described by Valenciennes in 1842 is a junior synonym of Puntius sarana;[29]
- the pool barb Leuciscus duvaucelii — described by Valenciennes in 1844 is a junior synonym of Puntius sophore;[30]
- the nase Chondrostoma duvaucelii found near Madras — first described by Valenciennes in 1844;[31]
- Felis Duvaucelli — described by Pardofelis marmorata by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1932;[33]
- Cyanops duvauceli robinsoni — named by Edward Charles Stuart Baker in 1918 as inhabiting the Malay Peninsula, Thailand and Myanmar,[34]is another name for the blue-eared barbet.
References
- ^ a b c Cuvier, G. (1821). "Notice sur les voyages de MM Diard et Duvaucel, naturalistes français, dans les Indes orientales et dans les îles de la Sonde". Revue encyclopédique. X (Juin 1821): 472–482.
- ^ Anonymous (1824). "Notice sur le voyage de M. A. Duvaucel, dans l'Inde". Journal Asiatique. IV (Mars 1824). Société Asiatique: 137–145.
- ^ Cuvier, F. (1824). "Notices sur les voyages de M. Duvaucel". Revue encyclopédique. XXI (Février 1824): 257–267.
- ^ Anonymous (1824). "Notice sur le voyage de M. A. Duvaucel, dans l'Inde". Journal Asiatique. IV (Avril 1824). Société Asiatique: 200–213.
- ^ Weiss, C. (1841). Biographie universelle, ou Dictionnaire historique contenant la nécrologie des hommes célèbres de tous les pays. Volume 2. Paris: Furne. p. 469.
- ^ Anonymous (1836). "Note on the Cervus Duvaucelii of Cuvier, or C. Elaphoides and Bahraiya of Hodgson". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 5: 240–242.
- ^ Anonymous (1825). "Nécrologie: Duvaucel". Revue encyclopédique. XXVI (Avril 1825): 274.
- ^ Eyriès, J. B.; Malte-Brun, C. (1835). Nouvelles annales des voyages, de la géographie et de l'histoire. Volume 66, Troisième série. Gide fils, Arthus Bertrand. Paris. p. 376.
- ^ Diard, P.M., Duvaucel, A. (1820) "Sur une nouvelle espèce de Sorex — Sorex Glis". Asiatick researches, or, Transactions of the society instituted in Bengal, for inquiring into the history and antiquities, the arts, sciences, and literature of Asia, Volume 14. Bengal Military Orphans Press, 1822
- ^ Duvaucel, A. (1822) "On the Black Deer of Bengal". Asiatick researches, or, Transactions of the society instituted in Bengal, for inquiring into the history and antiquities, the arts, sciences, and literature of Asia, Volume 15. Bengal Military Orphans Press, 1825
- ^ Anonymous (1824). "Troisieme Notice sur le voyage de M. A. Duvaucel, dans l'Inde, ayant pour objet plus particulier, l'histoire naturelle". Journal Asiatique. IV (Novembre 1824). Société Asiatique: 277–285.
- ^ Raffles, T. S. (1821). "Descriptive Catalogue of a Zoological Collection made on account of the Honourable East India Company, in the Island of Sumatra and its Vicinity, under the Direction of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of Fort Marlborough; with additional Notices illustrative of the Natural History of those Countries". The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. XIII. Linnean Society of London: 239–340.
- ^ Cuvier, F. (1825) "Ailurus. Ailurus fulgens. Panda". (archived from the original on January 13, 2013) 3 pages, 1 plate. In: Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, E.; Cuvier, F. (eds.) Histoire naturelle des Mammifères, avec des figures originales, coloriées, dessinées d'après des animaux vivans: publié sous l'autorité de l'administration du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle (50). A. Belin, Paris
- ^ Cuvier, Georges (1829) Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation, Tome 1 Chez Déterville, Paris book preview page 138: Le Panda éclatant
- ^ Cuvier, G. (1823). Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupèdes. Nouvelle édition, Tome Quatrième. Dufour & d'Ocagne, Paris, Amsterdam.
- ^ Wilson, D. E., Reeder, D.M. (2005) Mammal species of the world: a taxonomic and geographic reference, Volume 1 page 706: Naemorhedus goral Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005
- ^ Boisduval, J. P. (1829). "Psichotoe duvaucelii". Essai sur une Monographie des Zygénides, suivi du tableau méthodique, des Lépidoptéres d'Europe. Bruxelles: Méquignon-Marvis, Crochard. p. 129, plate 8.
- ^ Lesson, R.P. (1831) Traité d'ornithologie, ou, Tableau méthodique des ordres, sous-ordres, familles, tribus, genres, sous-genres et races d'oiseaux page 164: Barbu de Duvaucel Bucco duvauceli F.G. Levrault, Paris
- ^ Horsfield, T. (1856) A Catalogue of the Birds in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company, Vol. II, page 647. WM H. Allen and Co., London
- ^ Moore, F. (1859) List of Malayan Birds collected by Theodore Cantor Megalaima duvaucelii Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (Volume 1859), page 455. Zoological Society of London
- ^ Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum Mesobucco duvauceli Volume XIX, page 85. British Museum (Natural History), London
- ^ Integrated Taxonomic Information System Megalaima australis duvaucelii
- ^ Lesson, R.P. (1831) Traité d'ornithologie, ou, Tableau méthodique des ordres, sous-ordres, familles, tribus, genres, sous-genres et races d'oiseaux page 143: Boudou de Duvaucel Bubutus duvaucelii F.G. Levrault, Paris
- ^ Shelley, G.E. (1891) Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum Rhinortha Volume XIX, page 393. British Museum (Natural History), London
- ^ Global Biodiversity Information Facility Uroteuthis duvauceli
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Duvaucel", p. 79).
- ^ Gray, J. E. (1853) Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part II Apidæ page 302: Tetralonia Duvaucelii. British Museum, London
- ^ FishBase 2010 Rohita duvaucelii Valenciennes, 1842
- ^ FishBase 2010 Barbus duvaucelii Valenciennes, 1842
- ^ FishBase 2010 Leuciscus duvaucelii Valenciennes, 1844
- ^ Catalog of fishes 2011 Chondrostoma duvaucelii Archived 2012-10-18 at the Wayback Machine California Academy of Sciences Research
- ^ Horsfield, T. (1856) Catalogue of a collection of Mammalia from Nepal, Sikim, and Tibet, presented to the Hon. East India Company by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., in 1853. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Part XXIV: 396
- ^ Pocock, R. I. (1939) The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Mammalia. – Volume 1. Taylor and Francis, London.
- ^ Stuart Baker, E.C. (1918) Cyanops duvaceli robinsoni. Bulletin of the British Ornithologist's Club, Vol. XXXIX: 20