Alphonse Guichenot
Antoine Alphonse Guichenot (born July 31, 1809 in Paris , † February 17, 1876 in Cluny ) was a French zoologist ( herpetology , ichthyology ).
Guichenot was the son of a gardener at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (Jardin des Plantes) and received his training there. In 1833 he became a taxidermist at the museum's herpetology department . From 1856 until his retirement in 1872 he was an assistant naturalist at the museum.
From 1839 to 1842 he took part in excursions in Algeria (with contributions in the zoology volume of the final report Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie 1850).
He erstbeschrieb in fish, the armored sculpins genus of Agonomalus that neosebastidae genus of Neosebastes that silver smelt genus of Glossanodon , the cod genus of Gadiculus , the genre of the trumpet perch Mendosoma and the genus of groupers Paranthias well as the types of silver cod , the herring Herklotsichthys spilurus that King mackerel Pseudocaranx chilensis and Sarotherodon nigripinnis . Among the reptiles he first described the crown gecko . In the Historia física v política de Chile edited by Claudio Gay , he published the section fish (1848).
Web links
- Biography, french
- Information on Alphonse Guichenot in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guichenot, Alphonse |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guichenot, Antoine Alphonse (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French zoologist (herpetology, ichthyology) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1809 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 17, 1876 |
| Place of death | Cluny |