Prosper Garnot
Prosper Garnot | |
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| Born | 13 January 1794 |
| Died | 8 October 1838 (aged 44) Paris |
| Known for | Voyage autour du monde exécuté par order du roi sur la corvette La Coquille |
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| Fields | Surgeon and naturalist |
| Author abbrev. (zoology) | Garnot |
Prosper Garnot (13 January 1794 – 8 October 1838) was a French surgeon and naturalist.
Garnot was born at
Pacific. Garnot had a severe attack of dysentery and was sent back with some of the collection on the Castle Forbes. The specimens were lost when the ship was wrecked off the Cape of Good Hope in July 1824. With Lesson he wrote the zoological section of the voyage's report, Voyage autour du monde exécuté par order du roi sur la corvette La Coquille (1828–1832). He died, aged 44, in Paris
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The widely distributed
Hemidactylus garnotii A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1836, was named in his honour.[1]
References
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Garnot", p. 98).
Literature
- Levot, Prosper Jean (1856). "Biographie de Prosper Garnot ". Revue des Provinces de l'Ouest 4: 466–467. online (in French).
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