Replacement was necessary because when Richard Henry Beddome created Calodactylus in 1870, the name was already preoccupied by a genus of beetles which Émile Blanchard had named Calodactylus in 1850.
Émile Blanchard (Charles Émile Blanchard, 1819–1900), French biologist
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During this time period he also attended lectures from prominent zoologists that included Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805–1861) and Émile Blanchard (1819–1900).