Roger Bour

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Roger Henri Bour (born July 9, 1947 in Fontainebleau , France , † March 7, 2020 in Villejuif ) was a French herpetologist . His research focused primarily on turtles (Testudines).

Life

Bour is the son of Georges Roger Arthur Auguste Bour and Jeanne Ernestine Moreau. He has an older and a younger sister. After attending schools in Houilles , Fontainebleau , Paris , Onzain and Forbach , Bour studied zoology and biology at the Universities of Nancy and Paris. From 1968 until his retirement in 2017 he was a research assistant at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle .

Bour's main research interests were the turtles of Brazil, Africa, Madagascar, the Seychelles and the Mascarene Islands ( Mauritius , Réunion and Rodrigues ). In 1973 he described the southern toad head turtle ( Phrynops tuberculatus vanderhaegei ) from the family of the snake neck turtle (Chelidae), which was given species status by Peter Pritchard in 1979 as Phrynops vanderhaegei . In 2005 this taxon was placed in the genus Mesoclemmys by Bour and Hussam Zaher . In 1986, 2000 and 2003 the first descriptions of the African species Pelusios broadleyi , Pelusios marani and Pelusios cupulatta from the family of Pelomedus turtles (Pelomedusidae) followed. In 2005 he described the Brazilian toad head turtle ( Mesoclemmys perplexa ). In 2006 Bour and his colleagues submitted a revision of the Greek tortoise , according to which the eastern subspecies T. h. robertmertensi has been declared a synonym for the nominate form Testudo hermanni hermanni from the western area of ​​distribution. Furthermore, the genus Eurotestudo was suggested, but this is not accepted.

Bour also studied extinct species. In the 1980s, he published several scientific articles on the extinct turtles from the Seychelles and the Mascarene Islands. In 1994, together with Cécile Mourer-Chauviré , François Moutou and Sonia Ribes, he established the genus Mascarenotus for three extinct owl species of the Mascarenes. In 1999 he also described the extinct Réunion railroad ( Dryolimnas augusti ) with Mourer-Chauvire, Moutou and Ribes . In 2003, he and Jeremy J. Austin and E. Nicholas Arnold presented a study according to which the turtle taxa Dipsochelys dussumieri and Testudo sumeirei , which are thought to be extinct, are not separate species, but synonyms of the Aldabra giant tortoise ( Aldabrachelys gigantea ). In 2008 he and E. Nicholas Arnold described the extinct skinkart Leiolopisma ceciliae and the extinct gecko species Nactus soniae from Réunion.

Roger Bour was a member of the editorial team of the German turtle journal Marginata .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Roger Henri Bour in Fichier des personnes décédées , accessed on September 1, 2020.
  2. ^ Roger Bour: Contribution à la connaissance de Phrynops nasutus (Schweigger, 1812) et Phrynops tuberculatus (Luederwaldt, 1926). Description d'une nouvelle sous-espèce originaire du Paraguay, Phrynops tuberculatus vanderhaegei. (Testudinata-Pleurodira-Chelidae). Bulletin Societé Zoologique du France 98: 175-190.
  3. ^ Peter CH Pritchard: Encyclopedia of Turtles. New Jersey: TFH Publications, 1979. ISBN 0-87666-918-6 . Pp. 793-794
  4. ^ A b Roger Bour & Hussam Zaher: A new species of Mesoclemmys, from the open formations of northeastern Brazil (Chelonii, Chelidae). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo), Volume 45 (24), 2005: 295-311
  5. ^ Roger Bour: Note on Pelusios adansonii (Schweigger, 1812) et sur une nouvelle espece affine du Kenya (Chelonii, Pelomedusidae). Studia Geologica Salmanticensia, Studia Palaeocheloniologica 2 (2), 1986: 23-54
  6. ↑ Roger Bour: Une nouvelle espèce de Pelusios du Gabon (Reptilia, Chelonii, Pelomedusidae). Manouria Vol. 3 (8), 2000, pp. 1-32
  7. ^ R. Bour & J. Maran: Une nouvelle espèce de Pelusios de Côte d'Ivoire (Reptilia, Chelonii, Pelomedusidae). Manouria (Mezzavia) 6 (21), 2003: 24-43
  8. ^ A b F. de Lapparent de Broin, R. Bour, JF Parham, J. Perälä: Eurotestudo, a new genus for the species Testudo hermanni Gmelin, 1789 (Chelonii, Testudinidae). In: Comptes Rendus Palevol. 5, No. 6, 2006 ( doi : 10.1016 / j.crpv.2006.03.002 ), pp. 803-811.
  9. ^ Cécile Mourer-Chauviré, Roger Bour, François Moutou & Sonia Ribes (1994): Mascarenotus nov. gen. (Aves, Strigiformes), genre endémique éteint des Mascareignes et M. grucheti n. sp., espèce éteinte de La Réunion . Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences Paris, Séries II 318: 1699–1706.
  10. ^ Cécile Mourer-Chauviré, Roger Bour, Sonia Ribes & François Moutou: The avifauna of Réunion Island (Mascarene Islands) at the time of the arrival of the first Europeans. In: Avian Paleontology at the Close of the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, DC, June 4-7, 1996. Storrs L. Olson (Ed.) 89: S. 1-38. 1999
  11. ^ Jeremy J. Austin, E. Nicholas Arnold, Roger Bour (2003): Was there a second adaptive radiation of giant tortoises in the Indian Ocean? Using mitochondrial DNA to investigate speciation and biogeography of Aldabrachelys (Reptilia, Testudinidae). - Molecular Ecology, 12 (6)
  12. ^ E. Nicholas Arnold, Roger Bour: A new Nactus gecko (Gekkonidae) and a new Leiolopisma skink (Scincidae) from La Reunion, Indian Ocean, based on recent fossil remains and ancient DNA sequence. Zootaxa 1705, 2008: 40-50
  13. ↑ Editorial board of the journal Marginata ( Memento of the original dated May 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.marginata-magazin.de
personal data
SURNAME Bour, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bour, Roger Henri (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French herpetologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Fontainebleau , France
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 2020
Place of death Villejuif