Marie Firmin Bocourt(19 April 1819 – 4 February 1904) was a Frenchzoologistandartist.
Marie Firmin Bocourt | |
|---|---|
 Marie Firmin Bocourt | |
| Born | 19 April 1819 |
| Died | 4 February 1904(aged 84) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | |
As a young man, he worked as a preparateur for the zoologistGabriel Bibron(1805–1848), later serving as a museum artist. In 1861, he was sent toThailand(then called Siam), where he explored the fauna and brought back an important collection of specimens.[1]
He collaborated withAuguste Duméril(1812–1870) on a series calledMission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale,a result of Bocourt's scientific expedition toMexicoandCentral Americain 1864–1866, in one part during theFrench Intervention in Mexicoled byNapoleon III.Auguste Duméril died in 1870, and the project was continued by Bocourt with assistance fromLéon Vaillant(1834–1914),François Mocquard(1834–1917) andFernand Angel(1881–1950).[2][3]With Vaillant, he published a study on fishes, "Études sur les poissons",that was included inMission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale.[4]
As an artist, he specialized inengravings,doing portraits of contemporary people as well as zoological illustrations.
Taxa named in honor of Bocourt
editBocourt has a number of zoological species and subspecies named after him, including the following.
- Bocourt's swimming crab,Callinectes bocourtiA. Milne-Edwards,1879,native to theCaribbean
- Bocourt's eyelid skink,Phoboscincus bocourti(Brocchi,1876),[5]native toNew Caledonia
- Bocourt's black-headed snake,Tantillabocourti(Günther,1895),[5][6]native toMexico
- Incilius bocourti(Brocchi, 1877),a Central Americantoad[1]
- Craugastor bocourti(Brocchi, 1877),a frog native toGuatemala[1]
- Hyla bocourti(Mocquard,1899),a frog native toGuatemala[1]
- Cincelichthys bocourti(Vaillant&Pellegrin,1902),a Central Americancichlid[7]
- Agama bocourtiRochebrune,1884,[5]a lizard native toWest Africa
- Anolis bocourtiiCope,1876,[5]a lizard native to northernSouth America
- Atractus bocourtiBoulenger,1894,[5]a snake native to northwestern South America
- Micrurus bocourti(Jan,1872),[5]avenomous snakenative to northwestern South America
- Mystus bocourti(Bleeker,1864),a catfish native toSoutheast Asia
- Pangasius bocourtiSauvage,1880,a catfish native toSoutheast Asia
- Polemon bocourtiMocquard, 1897,[5]arear-fangedsnake native toCentral Africa
- Sceloporus occidentalis bocourtiiBoulenger, 1885,[5]a lizard native toCalifornia
- Subsessor bocourti(Jan, 1865),[5]a snake native to Southeast Asia
Nota bene:Abinomial authorityin parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a differentgenus.
Works
edit- Bocourt, F. (1868)Descriptions de quelques crotaliens nouveaux appartenant au genre Bothrops, recueillis dans le Guatemala.Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool., ser. 5, vol. 10, p. 201–202.
- Duméril, A., Bocourt, F.Études sur les reptiles et les batraciens.en la serie "Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique centrale., recherches zoologiques", 3e partie, 1ère section. Paris: Imprimerie Impériale.
- Duméril, A., Bocourt, F. & Mocquard, F. (1870-1909).Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale. Recherches zoologiques.Paris: Imprimerie Impériale
- Bocourt, F. (1873a)Caractères d'une espèce nouvelle d'iguaniens le Sceleporus acathhinus.[Characters on a New Iguana Species, Sceleporus acathinus] Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. (5)17(6): 1.
- Bocourt, F. (1873b)Deux notes sur quelques sauriens de l'Amérique tropicale.[Two Notes on Its Tropical (Pan-)American Lizards] Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. Paleontol. (5)19(4): 1–5.
- Bocourt, F. (1873c)Note sur quelques espèces nouvelles d'iguaniens du genre Sceleporus.[Notes on the New Iguana Species of the Genre Sceleporus] Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. (5)17(10): 1–2.
- Bocourt, F. (1873–1897)Études sur les reptiles.[Studies on Reptiles] Part 3, Sect. 1, Book. 2–15, pp. 33–860, Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale - Recherches Zoologiques. Paris, Imprimerie Imperiale. p. 1012
- Bocourt, F. (1876a)Note sur quelques reptiles du Mexique.[Notes on Its Reptiles of Mexico] Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool.(6)3(12): 1–4.
- Bocourt, F. (1876b)Note sur quelques reptiles de l'Isthme de Tehuantepec (Mexique) donnés par M.Sumichrastau Muséum.J. Zool. (Paris) 5: 386–411.
- Bocourt, F. (1879)Etudes sur les reptiles.[Studies on Reptiles] Miss. Sci. Mexique, Rech. ZooL. Book. 6:361-440, p. 21–22, 22A-22D
References
edit- ^abcdBeolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2013).The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians.Exeter, England: Pelagic Publishing. p. 25.ISBN978-1-907807-44-2.
- ^[1]Softcover, Antiquariaat Junk; (Adler, Kraig.History of Herpetology.pp. 43/44).
- ^World Cat TitlesEtudes sur les reptiles et les batraciens.(in French).
- ^WorldCat TitlesÉtudes sur les poissons.(in French).
- ^abcdefghiBeolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011).The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp.ISBN978-1-4214-0135-5.( "Bocourt", pp. 28-29).
- ^Tantilla bocourtiat theReptarium.cz Reptile Database.Accessed 5 December 2015.
- ^Vaillant, Léon Louis;Pellegrin, Jacques(1902). "Cichlidés nouveaux de l'Amérique Centrale".Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle8:85-86. (in French).
