Jules Bourcier
Jules Bourcier | |
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| Born | 19 February 1797 Cuisery, Saône-et-Loire, France |
| Died | 9 March 1873 (aged 76) Batignolles, Paris |
| Known for | Descriptions de nouvelles espèces d'oiseaux-mouches, 1839 (with Martial Étienne Mulsant and Jules Verreaux); Collection typique d'oiseaux mouches (Trochilidés), 1874 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Ornithology (especially hummingbirds) |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Bourcier |
Claude Marie Jules Bourcier (19 February 1797 – 9 March 1873) was a French naturalist and expert on hummingbirds.[1][2]
Bourcier was born in Cuisery, Saône-et-Loire.[3] He was the mayor of Millery, Rhône from 1832 to 1837, and he was the French consul to Ecuador from 1849 to 1850. In 1857, he became a corresponding member of the Société linnéenne de Lyon.[1]
Bourcier named a number of new hummingbird species, either alone or with other ornithologists, such as Adolphe Delattre and Martial Etienne Mulsant.
The following hummingbird species bear his name:
- Colibri de Bourcier (Polyonymus caroli), described by Bourcier in 1847;
- Phaethornis bourcieri, described by René Primevère Lesson in 1832.[1]
A species of South American snake, Saphenophis boursieri, was named in his honor by Giorgio Jan in 1867.[4] The terrestrial mollusk genus Bourciera was named after him, based on specimens he collected for Louis Pfeiffer.
He died in Batignolles, Paris, in 1873.[3]
Publications
- Descriptions de nouvelles espèces d'oiseaux-mouches, 1839 (with Martial Étienne Mulsant & Jules Verreaux)
- Collection typique d'oiseaux mouches (Trochilidés), 1874 (posthumous)[5]
Sources
- Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird?: Men and women commemorated in the common names of birds. London: Christopher Helm. 400 pp. ISBN 978-0713666472.
References
- ^ a b c Prosopo Sociétés savantes de France.
- ^ Civil records. Archives of Saône-et-Loire. Born 19 February, registered 20 February. [1] image 7.
- ^ a b Quäbicker, Gustav (1939). "Die Ehrenmitglieder der Deutschen Ornithologischen Gesellschaft von deren Gründung (1850) bis 1935". Journal für Ornithologie (in German). 87 (2): 189–215. doi:10.1007/BF01951129. ISSN 0021-8375.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Bourcier", p. 35).
- ^ Google Books (publications).
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