Jean René Constant Quoy
Jean René Constant Quoy | |
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| Field | Naval surgeon |
| Institutions | Rochefort Naval School |
Jean René Constant Quoy (10 November 1790 in
In 1806, he began his medical studies at the school of naval medicine at Rochefort, afterwards serving as an auxiliary-surgeon on a trip to the Antilles (1808–1809). After earning his medical doctorate in 1814 at Montpellier, he was surgeon-major on a journey to Réunion (1814–1815).
Along with
Along with his skills as a naturalist, Quoy was acclaimed for his work as an artist.[3]
In 1824, he was appointed professor of anatomy at the Rochefort Naval School, where from 1832 to 1835, he was a professor of medicine. He then continued his career at naval hospitals in Toulon (1835–1837) and in Brest (1838–1848), afterwards being chosen inspector general of the Naval Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (serving from 1848 to 1858).[3][4]
Taxonomy
The following genera or species were named in his honor:
- Lesson, 1827 – the black butcherbird
- Quoyia A. Gray, 1839 – a genus of extinct marine gastropods
- Terebra quoygaimardi Cernohorsky, 1976 – a species of sea snail
- Pilumnus quoyi H. Milne-Edwards, 1834 – a species of crab
- Ischnochiton quoyanus J. Thiele, 1910 – a species of chiton
- Eulamprus quoyii A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839 – a species of skink[5]
- Quoya Gaudich. – a genus of Australian plants
Writings
- Voyage autour du monde … pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820. (with Louis Claude Desaulses de Freycinet, Joseph Paul Gaimard, Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré, et al.).[6]
- Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829 sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. (with Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville, J Tastu and Joseph Paul Gaimard).[7]
Sources
- ISBN 0-12-487440-1.
See also
References
- ^ Quoy, Jean René; Gaimard, Joseph Paul (1824). Voyage autour du Monde: Zoologie. Paris: Pillet Ainé. pp. 658–671. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
- ^ Tongan Giant Skink A gap in nature: discovering the world's extinct animals by Tim Fridtjof Flannery
- ^ a b Data Fisheries Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Jean René Constant Quoy, Dr
- ^ Discovery of Australia's Fishes: Google Books A History of Australian Ichthyology to 1930 by Brian Saunders
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Quoy", p. 214).
- ^ Open Library Voyage autour du monde. (in French).
- ^ WorldCat Title Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe. (in French).
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