Paul Gervais
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Author abbrev. (zoology) | Gervais |
Paul Gervais full name François Louis Paul Gervais (26 September 1816 – 10 February 1879) was a French
Biography
Gervais was born in Paris, where he obtained the diplomas of doctor of science and of medicine, and in 1835 he began palaeontological research as assistant in the laboratory of comparative anatomy at the
According to Florentino Ameghino, Paul Gervais studied a fossil collection obtained from Juan Manuel de Rosas the governor of Buenos Aires. Earlier on, this collection would have been donated or donated-by-force to the Buenos Aires Province by Francisco Javier Muñiz.[2]
Legacy
Gervais is commemorated in the vernacular and scientific names of the following taxa:
- a species of snake, Calamaria gervaisii.[3]
- a species of cetacean, Gervais' beaked whale(Mesoplodon europaeus).
Works
Apart from the works mentioned previously he also wrote:[1]
- with Charles Athanase Walckenaer Histoire naturelle des insectes (4 vols., 1836–1847)
- Zoologie et paléontologie françaises (1848–1852)
- Histoire naturelle des Mammifères (1853)
- Zoologie médicale (1859), mit Pierre-Joseph van Beneden
- Recherches sur l'ancienneté de l'homme et la période quaternaire (1867)
- Zoologie et Paléontologie générales (1867)
- Ostéographie des cétacés vivants et fossiles (1869),with Pierre-Joseph van Beneden[1]
Species first described by Gervais
- Brachistosternus ehrenbergii
- Gervais' beaked whale(Mesoplodon europaeus)
See also
References
- ^ a b Chisholm 1911, p. 907.
- ^ Barquez, Rubén M.; Díaz, M. Mónica (2014). "History of mammalogy in Argentina". In Ortega, José; Martínez, José Luis; Tirira, Diego G. (eds.). Historia de la mastozoología en Latinoamérica, las Guayanas y el Caribe (PDF) (in Spanish). Editorial Murciélago Blanco y Asociación Ecuatoriana de Mastozoología. pp. 15–50. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 June 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Gervais", p. 100).
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gervais, Paul". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 907. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the