| Auguste Duméril | |
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| Born | (1812-11-30)30 November 1812 Paris |
| Died | 12 November 1870(1870-11-12) (aged 57) Paris |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
| Known for | Catalogue méthodique de la collection des Reptiles |
| Father | André Marie Constant Duméril |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | |
| Institutions | Muséum national d'histoire naturelle French Academy of Sciences |
| Author abbrev. (zoology) | Duméril |
Auguste Henri André Duméril (30 November 1812 – 12 November 1870) was a French zoologist. His father, André Marie Constant Duméril (1774–1860), was also a zoologist. In 1869 he was elected as a member of the Académie des sciences.
Duméril studied at the University of Paris, and in 1844 became an associate professor of comparative physiology at the university. From 1857, he was a professor of herpetology and ichthyology at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.
In 1851, with his father, he published Catalogue méthodique de la collection des Reptiles. With zoologist Marie Firmin Bocourt (1819–1904), he collaborated on a project called Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale, a publication that was the result of Bocourt's scientific expedition to Mexico and Central America from 1864 to 1866. The section on reptiles is considered to be Dumeril's best written effort in the field of herpetology. Duméril died in 1870 during the siege of Paris, and Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale was continued by Bocourt, Léon Vaillant (1834–1914) and other scientists.
As part of the Collection des Suites à Buffon, he issued a two-volume ichthyological study titled Histoire naturelle des poissons, ou Ichtyologie générale (1865, 1870), research that complemented the works of Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) and Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865) by describing species not covered by the two famous naturalists. Duméril also conducted significant research involving the axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum).
Tribute
Saurogobio dumerili Bleeker 1871 was named in honor of Duméril, who invited Bleeker to examine Chinese cyprinids in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle’s collection.
See also
References
- New Zealand Journal of Zoology Aug 1977
- World Cat (Book 1870) Etudes sur les reptiles et les batraciens
- Softcover, Antiquariaat Junk Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale . Recherches zoologiques. Troisième partie, 1re section: .Études sur les reptiles et les batracians
- Archive,org Histoire naturelle des poissons, ou, Ichthyologie générale (1865)
- Biodiversity Heritage Library Histoire naturelle des poissons
- Herpetological Osteopathology: Annotated Bibliography of Amphibians and Reptiles by Hans-Peter Schultze, Rodrigo Pellegrini
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Families ACHEILOGNATHIDAE, GOBIONIDAE and TANICHTHYIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Archived from the original on 29 September 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2021.