Charles Payraudeau

Benjamin Charles Marie Payraudeau (* 1798, † 1865) was a French zoologist.

He followed Jean -Baptiste de La Marck (1744-1829) to the Muséum national d' histoire naturelle in Paris and expanded 1824/25 the stock to some animals from Corsica. He discovered two species of birds that have not been described at this point scientifically. In Description de deux nouvelles d' oiseaux espèces, aux genres Mouette et Cormoran appartenant in Volume 8 of the Annales des Sciences Naturelles (1826 ), he then described the rare Audouin's gull (Larus audouinii ) and the subspecies of the Shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis desmarestii.

He added the totals include 71 new annelid and mollusc species, some of which in the sea (marine ) and partly on the mainland occur ( terrestrial), and described them in the Catalogue descriptif et méthodique of annélides et des Mollusques de l' ile de Corse ( 1826). Of these species are still valid 32.

Payraudeau a museum of natural history of the birds was dedicated. It's called Musée ornithologique Charles Payraudeau and is in La Chaize- le -Vicomte in the Vendée in France. His entire collections were handed over to the museum.

Works

• Catalogue descriptif et méthodique of annelides et de l' ile de Mollusques of Corse. Béchet & Tastu, Paris in 1826.

• Zoologist
• Born in 1798
• Died in 1865
• Frenchman
• Man