Victor-Jean-François Loche

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Victor-Jean-François Loche (* 1806 in Mandres , Département Seine-et-Oise , † 1863 in Algeria ) was a French naturalist and captain of the French army.

Loche took part in an expedition to explore the Algerian province of Ouargla in the northern Sahara in 1855/56 . In the process he discovered the sand cat , which he identified as previously unknown. The leader of the expedition was Capitaine Jean-Auguste Margueritte (1823-1870, stationed under the French flag in Algeria), to whom Loche gave the sand cat the scientific name Felis margarita .

Works

  • Catalog des mammifères et des oiseaux observés en Algérie . Bertrand, Paris 1858.
  • Histoire naturelle des mammifères. Bertrand, Paris 1867
  • Histoire naturelle des oiseaux. Bertrand, Paris 1867

literature

  • Necrology de Loche . In: Revue et magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée . Vol. 26, ser. 2, vol. 15. Paris 1863, p. 274-280 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Loche, Victor-Jean-François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French naturalist and captain of the French army
DATE OF BIRTH 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Mandres
DATE OF DEATH 1863
Place of death Algeria