Auguste Boissonneau

Auguste Boissonneau (26 July 1802, Saumur – 7 July 1883, Paris) was a French ornithologist and ocularist. In the latter field he was a pioneer of ocular prosthesis.[1]

As an ornithologist, he was the taxonomic authority of numerous species native to tropical and subtropical South America. The hummingbird genus Boissonneaua (Reichenbach, 1854) commemorates his name, as does the species Pseudocolaptes boissonneautii (streaked tuftedcheek), a bird circumscribed by Frédéric de Lafresnaye in 1840.[2]

Ornithological taxa described by Boissonneau

Partial bibliography

References

  1. Chronological and Descriptive Index of Patents Applied for and Patents ... Great Britain. Patent Office
  2. The Eponym Dictionary of Birds by Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson
  3. ITIS Taxon author: Boissonneau, 1840
  4. Catalogue of Scientific Papers (1800-1900): ser. 1 , 1800-1863 by Royal Society (Great Britain), Henry White, Herbert McLeod, Henry Forster Morley
  5. Google Search List of published works.
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