François-Marie Daudin

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Birth certificate François Marie Daudin August 29, 1776
François-Marie Daudin's death entry in Paris 8. Frimaire XII (corresponds to November 30, 1803)

François-Marie Daudin (born August 29, 1776 in Paris , † November 30, 1803 there ) was a French zoologist .

Live and act

Daudin was paralyzed from childhood and turned to the study of natural history. He died early of tuberculosis.

Daudin wrote an introduction to ornithology, Traité élémentaire et complet d'ornithologie (1800, 2 volumes) and his Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des reptiles ( 1802 - 05 , 8 volumes) as part of the Sonnini edition of Buffon's natural history Standard work and at its time the most complete work on reptiles. According to his own statements, he described 517 species based on 1100 specimens, including some initial descriptions (55 species of reptiles alone). These were three times more species than in the previously published work by Bernard Germain Lacépède .

Dedication names

Le Guêpier Daudin

André Marie Constant Duméril and Gabriel Bibron named a turtle species Testudo daudinii in 1835 , which is now listed in the Seychelles as an extinct subspecies of the Aldabra giant tortoise ( Aldabrachelys gigantea daudinii ) . In 1807, François Levaillant (1753-1824) named the blue- tailed pint ( Merops philippinus ) Le Guêpier Daudin in honor of Daudin. In 1973 Bertha Lutz named a species of frog Hyla daudini , a name that is now a synonym for Hypsiboas boans . She gave the name because, from her point of view, Daudin had misused the name Hyla Boans in 1802 . The species Colobus Daudini (in Daudin Chalcides monodactylus ) described by Blasius Merrem in 1820 is a synonym for Bachia flavescens ( Bonnaterre , 1789).

Fonts

  • Recueil de memoires ... sur les Mollusques, de Vers et les Zoophytes. Paris 1806
  • Histoire naturelle des rainettes, des grenouilles et des crapauds: dédiée à BGEL Lacépède . De l'Imprimerie de Bertrandet, Paris 1802 ( online [accessed November 27, 2015]).
  • Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des reptiles. 8 volumes, Dufart, Paris 1801 to 1803, Biodiversity Library
  • Recueil de mémoires et de notes sur des espèces inédites ou peu connues de mollusques, de vers et de zoophytes. Fuchs, Treuttel & Wurtz, Paris 1800.
  • Traité élémentaire et complet d'ornithologie ou Histoire naturelle des oiseaux. Bertrandet, Paris 1800.

literature

  • Roger Bour: François Marie Daudin (29 août 1776–30 November 1803), author de l'Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des Reptiles . In: Alytes: International Journal of Batrachology . tape 28 , no. 1/2 , 2011, ISSN  0753-4973 , p. 1-76 .
  • Roger Bour: Compléments et rectificatifs à la biography de François Daudin . In: Alytes: International Journal of Batrachology . tape 31 , no. 9 , 2014, ISSN  0753-4973 , p. 41–45 ( online [PDF; accessed November 27, 2015]).
  • François Levaillant: Histoire naturelle des promerops, et des guêpiers: faisant suite à celle des oiseaux de paradis par la même . Denne Le Jeune, Paris 1807 ( online [accessed November 27, 2015]).
  • André Marie Constant Duméril, Gabriel Bibron: Erpétologie générale, ou, Histoire naturelle complète des reptiles . tape 2 . Libraire Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris 1835 ( online [accessed November 27, 2015]).
  • Bertha Lutz: Brazilian Species of Hyla . University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas 1973, ISBN 978-0-292-70704-7 .
  • Blasius Merrem: attempt of a system of amphibians . Johann Christian Krieger, Marburg 1820 ( online [accessed November 27, 2015]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Uetz: The original descriptions of reptiles, Zootaxa, No. 2335, 2010, 59-68, pdf
  2. ^ André Marie Constant Duméril et al. a., pp. 123-126.
  3. ↑ François Levaillant, pp. 49–50, plate 14.
  4. ↑ Bertha Lutz, p. 41.
  5. ^ François Marie Daudin, p. 31.
  6. ^ Blasius Merrem, p. 76.
personal data
SURNAME Daudin, François-Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1803
Place of death Paris