Polydore Roux
Illustration — Plate from Iconographie conchyliologique Jean Louis Florent Polydore Roux (27 July 1792, Marseille −12 April 1833, Bombay) was a French painter and naturalist. Jean-Louis-Florent-Polydore Roux was, from his childhood, interested in natural history and had a large insect collection. He was taught by Pierre André Latreille and Georges Cuvier at Académie des sciences de l'Institut de France in Paris and was in 1819 appointed curator of the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Marseille.
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Polydore Roux
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- 1792 · Marseille.
- Died
- 1833
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- naturalist · zoologist · entomologist · malacologist · carcinologist · ornithologist · painter
- Languages
- French
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Born at Marseille in 1792, died in 1833.
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- 1.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Roux, P.", p. 228).
- 2.Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Order BLENNIIFORMES: Family BLENNIIDAE. The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. 26 October 2018.
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- Maurice Boubier, L’Évolution de l’ornithologie, Paris, Alcan, coll. « Nouvelle collection scientifique », 1925, ii + 308 pp. (in French).
- Paul Masson (sous la direction de), Encyclopédie départementale des Bouches-du-Rhône, Archives départementales des Bouches-du-Rhône, Marseille, 17 volumes parus de 1913 à 1937, Tome XI, pp. 479–480. (in French).
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