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3 unusual facts about André Marie Constant Duméril


André Marie Constant Duméril

Under the Restauration, he was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences (French Academy of Sciences) and succeeded, after 1803, Lacépède, who was occupied by his political offices, as professor of herpetology and ichthyology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.

In 1832, Gabriel Bibron (1806–1848), who became his assistant, was given the task of describing the species for an expanded version of Zoologie analytique, while Nicolaus Michael Oppel (1782–1820) assisted him with a revised higher-order systematics.

Duméril

André Marie Constant Duméril (1774–1860) (author abbreviation in zoology: Duméril), and his son


Constant Prévost

He was educated there at the Central Schools, where, inspired by the lectures of Georges Cuvier, his particular mentor Alexandre Brongniart, and André Marie Constant Duméril, he determined to devote himself to natural science.

Ctenophorus

Ctenophorus decresii (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1837) – tawny crevice dragon, tawny dragon

Martinique curly-tailed lizard

While André Marie Constant Duméril and Gabriel Bibron stated Martinique and Trinidad and Tobago as type locality George Albert Boulenger has given only Trinidad and Tobago as terra typica.

Pantherophis

Pantherophis spiloides (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) – gray ratsnake or central ratsnake

Striped marsh frog

The striped marsh frog was described by French naturalists André Marie Constant Duméril and Gabriel Bibron in 1841.


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