Joseph Paul Gaimard

Joseph Paul Gaimard ( born January 31, 1796 in Saint -Zacharie, Var, † December 10, 1858 in Paris) was a French surgeon, naturalist, zoologist and ichthyologist.

Together with the researcher Jean René Constant Quoy he served 1817-1820 as a ship's surgeon on the ships Uranie and Physicienne who circumnavigated the globe under Louis Claude de Freycinet Desaulces, and 1826-1829 under Jules Dumont d' Urville on the Astrolabe.

From 1835 to 1836 he was scientific director of the Antarctic expedition on the ship La Recherche. In 1835 he visited Iceland and was sent the following summer by the French government again there; this time as the leading head of the mission. In 1838 he was head of a mission to Spitsbergen.

At least three species have been named after him:

• The wrasse Coris gaimard ( Quoy & Gaimard, 1824); German yellowtail Junker
• Eualus gaimardii ( Milne Edwards, 1837)
• Byblis gaimardi ( Krøyer, 1846)

Works

• Louis de Freycinet (ed.): Voyage autour du Monde, entrepris par ordre du Roi sur les corvettes ... EXECUTE de ... l' Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820 part 1 and. 2: Zoology. Aîné Pillet, Paris 1824 ( with Quoy )
• Voyage en Islande et au pendant les années 1835 Greenland EXECUTE et sur ​​la 1836 corvette La Recherche dans le but de ... découvrir les traces de La Lilloise. Bertrand, Paris 1838-1852.
• Voyage de la corvette l' Astrolabe, execute par ordre du Roi, pendant les annes 1826 - 1827 - 1828 - 1829, sous le commandement de Dumont D' Urville MJ, capitaine de Vaisseau. Tastu, Paris 1830-1834. ( inter alia with Dumont D' Urville, Quoy, Boisduval )