Joseph Huet

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Joseph Huet (born September 30, 1827 in Paris , † February 23, 1903 in La Vacherie , Arrondissement Les Andelys , Département Eure ) was a French zoologist and taxidermist . His main interest was mammalogy .

Life

Huet was the son of an engraver . In 1844 he became an employee at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle . In 1857 he was second taxidermist in Taxidermy . In 1864 he replaced the late zoologist Théodore Poortman (1804–1863) as deputy taxidermy head of the mammals department. From 1874 Huet briefly held the position of gallery keeper before he became a deputy naturalist at the zoological chair for mammals and birds in 1876. He succeeded Alphonse Milne-Edwards and was particularly responsible for overseeing the menagerie. In 1890 he retired. He was married and had a son.

In the museum, Huet devoted most of his time to installing and maintaining the preparations. However, he also made observations on living mammals, which allowed him to describe several new species. His publications include articles on the thylacine , the elk , the Senegal antelope , the Philippine pustular pig, and the coat howler monkey .

Huet wrote the scientific first descriptions for Palawan bearded pig ( Sus ahoenobarbus ), for Congo Goldmull ( Huetia leucorhina ) for Somali elephant shrew ( Galegeeska revoili ), for ocher Bush Squirrel ( Paraxerus ochraceus ) for Angola furrows tooth-Bach rat ( Pelomys Campanae ) and the Palawan stink badger ( Mydaus marchei ).

In 1880 Huet published the monograph Recherches sur les écureuils Africains , for which John Gerrard Keulemans made two chromolithographs .

Dedication names

In 1874, Father Armand David named the subspecies Alcippe morrisonia huetii of the gray-cheeked alcippe in honor of Joseph Huet. In 1883 Alphonse Trémeau de Rochebrune described the African bilchart Graphiurus hueti . However, since there are doubts about the place of origin named by Rochebrune and no holotype exists, Peter Grubb and William Frank Harding Ansell synonymous this taxon in 1996 with the great African dormouse ( Graphiurus nagtglasii ) described by Fredericus Anna Jentink in 1888 . Lothar Forcart (1902–1990) also named a genus Huetia in 1942 , which referred to the Congo gold mole ( Huetia leucorhina ( Huet ), 1885) as a genotype .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Armand David: Description de quelques oiseaux de Chine . In: Annales des sciences naturelles (=  5 ). tape 19 , 1874, pp. 1-14 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  2. ↑ Alphonse Trémeau de Rochebrune: Diagnoses de quelques Mammiféres nouveaux ou peu connus propres à la Sénégambie . In: Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (=  7 ). tape 8 , 1883, p. 5-11 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  3. ^ P. Grubb, WFH Ansell: The name Graphiurus hueti de Rochebrune, 1883 and a critique of de Rochebrune's 'Fauna de la Sénégambie, Mammifères.' The Nigerian Field, 61, 1996, pp. 164-171
  4. ^ Lothar Forcart: Contributions to the knowledge of the insectivore family Chrysochloridae . In: Revue suisse de zoologie . tape 49 , no. 1 , February 1, 1942, p. 1-6 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Huet, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French zoologist and taxidermist
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1903
Place of death La Vacherie , Arrondissement Les Andelys , Département Eure