Marie Firmin Bocourt

Marie Firmin Bocourt ( born April 19, 1819 in Paris, † 1904) was a French zoologist and artist.

Life

1861 Bocourt held twice in Siam, where he explored the fauna and numerous specimens brought back. He led from 1864 to 1866 a scientific expedition with Auguste Duméril to Central America. The excursion took place in the period of the French intervention in Mexico, for Napoleon III. 1864 a scientific commission, the Commission established scientifique du Mexique. The expedition began in 1864 on the territory of modern Guatemala, there Bocourt spent the majority of the expedition. This was followed by exploration in the field of Belize, El Salvador and Costa Rica. From Panama was the journey home to France. Boucourts collection of amphibians and reptiles formed the basis of his mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l' Amérique Centrale. His copies were by himself, Auguste Duméril, François Mocquard, Léon Louis Vaillant and Fernand Angel (1881-1950) worked from 1870 until 1890.

As an artist, he produced engravings and portraits of contemporary people and zoological illustrations.

Ehrentaxa

  • Tantilla bocourti, Günther, 1895. Snakes of the family Colubridae the
  • Phoboscincus bocourti, Brocchi, 1876. Skink of the family Scincidae
  • Callinectes bocourti, Williams, 1974. Swimming crab

Works

  • Marie Firmin Bocourt: (1868 ) Descriptions de quelques nouveaux crotaliens appartenant au genre Bothrops, recueillis dans le Guatemala. Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. , Ser. 5, vol. 10, pp. 201-202.
  • Auguste Duméril, Marie Firmin Bocourt: (1870 ) Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l' Amérique centrale, Études sur les reptiles, livr. 1, pl. 12, 7, 7a -g.
  • Marie Firmin Bocourt: ( 1873a ) Caractères d'une nouvelle d' espèce iguaniens le Sceleporus acathhinus. Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. (5 ) 17 ( 6): 1
  • Marie Firmin Bocourt: ( 1873b ) Deux notes sur quelques sauriens de l' Amérique Tropicale. Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. Paleontol. (5) 19 (4): 1-5.
  • Marie Firmin Bocourt: ( 1873c ) Note sur quelques nouvelles d' espèces iguaniens you Sceleporus genre. Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. (5 ) 17 ( 10): 1-2.
  • Marie Firmin Bocourt: (1873-1897) Etudes sur les reptiles. Part 3, Sect. 1, livr. 2-15, pp. 33-860, in Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l' Amérique Centrale - Recherches Zoologiques. Paris, Imprimerie Imperiale. 1012 pp.
  • Marie Firmin Bocourt: ( 1876a ) Note sur quelques reptiles du Mexique. Ann. Sci.. . Nat Zool (6 ) 3 ( 12): 1-4.
  • Marie Firmin Bocourt: ( 1876b ) Note sur quelques reptiles de l' Isthme de Tehuantepec ( Mexique ) donnés par M. Sumichrast au Muséum. J. Zool. (Paris ) 5: 386-411.
  • Marie Firmin Bocourt: (1879 ) Etudes sur les reptiles. Miss. Sci. Mexique, Ind. ZooL. Livr. 6:361-440, pis. 21-22, 22A - 22D
  • Marie Firmin Bocourt; Léon Vaillant. (1883 ) Etudes sur les poissons. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1874-1883
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