Marie Firmin Bocourt (19 April 1819 – 4 February 1904) was a French zoologist and artist .
6-397: As a young man, he worked as a preparateur for the zoologist Gabriel Bibron (1805–1848), later serving as a museum artist. In 1861, he was sent to Thailand (then called Siam), where he explored the fauna and brought back an important collection of specimens. He collaborated with Auguste Duméril (1812–1870) on a series called Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale ,
12-606: A different genus . Gabriel Bibron Gabriel Bibron (20 October 1805 – 27 March 1848) was a French zoologist and herpetologist . He was born in Paris . The son of an employee of the Museum national d'histoire naturelle , he had a good foundation in natural history and was hired to collect vertebrates in Italy and Sicily . Under the direction of Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778–1846), he took part in
18-560: A result of Bocourt's scientific expedition to Mexico and Central America in 1864–1866, in one part during the French Intervention in Mexico led by Napoleon III . Auguste Duméril died in 1870, and the project was continued by Bocourt with assistance from Léon Vaillant (1834–1914), François Mocquard (1834–1917) and Fernand Angel (1881–1950). With Vaillant, he published a study on fishes, " Études sur les poissons ", that
24-612: The Morea expedition to Peloponnese . He classified numerous reptile species with André Marie Constant Duméril (1774–1860), whom he had met in 1832. Duméril was interested mainly in the relations between genera , and he left to Bibron the task of describing the species. Working together they produced the Erpétologie Générale , a comprehensive account of the reptiles , published in ten volumes from 1834 to 1854. Also, Bibron assisted Duméril with teaching duties at
30-456: The museum and was an instructor at a primary school in Paris. Bibron contracted tuberculosis and retired in 1845 to Saint-Alban-les-Eaux , where he died aged 42. Bibron is commemorated in the scientific names of ten species of reptiles. An eleventh species, which was more commonly known as Agama impalearis , had been named Agama bibronii by André Marie Constant Duméril in 1851, however
36-468: Was included in Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale . As an artist, he specialized in engravings , doing portraits of contemporary people as well as zoological illustrations. Bocourt has a number of zoological species and subspecies named after him, including the following. Nota bene : A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in
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