Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (6 March 1784 – 4 June 1838) was a French zoologist and author. He was the son of Nicolas Desmarest and the father of Eugène Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest .
5-424: Two Described by French naturalist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1826, the genus Calyptorhynchus has two species of cockatoos. They are all mostly black in colour, and the taxa may be differentiated partly by size and partly by small areas of red, grey, and yellow plumage, especially in the tail feathers. Studies based on the mitochondrial DNA 12S gene fragment suggested that other sexually dichromatic species,
10-467: The Académie Nationale de Médecine in 1820. Desmarest published Histoire Naturelle des Tangaras , des Manakins et des Todiers (1805), Considérations générales sur la classe des crustacés (1825), Mammalogie ou description des espèces des Mammifères (1820), and Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (1816–30, with André Marie Constant Duméril ). His Mammalogie
15-684: The gang-gang cockatoo and the cockatiel may be the closest living relatives of Calyptorhynchus . However, subsequent studies, including more genes confirm the morphological taxonomy with the gang-gang cockatoo most closely related to the galah , within the white cockatoo group, and with the cockatiel as a third distinct subfamily of cockatoos. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] The Yellow-tailed black cockatoo , Baudin's black cockatoo and Carnaby's black cockatoo were previously included in Calyptorhynchus as subgenus Zanda . However, based on genetic divergence Zanda
20-492: Was recognised as a genus and the three species transferred out of Calyptorhynchus . Anselme Ga%C3%ABtan Desmarest Desmarest was a disciple of Georges Cuvier and Alexandre Brongniart , and in 1815, he succeeded Pierre André Latreille to the professorship of zoology at the École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort . He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1819 and to
25-429: Was significant as it contained a comprehensive list of all mammals known at the time, including living forms and extinct forms known only from fossils. Desmarest was one of the first scientists to routinely apply both genus and species names to animals. Prior to his time, it was common practice to give only a genus name to a new animal. The common name , Desmarest's hutia , honors Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, who described
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