Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest

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Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest.

Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784 – June 4, 1838) was a French zoologist and author. He was the son of Nicolas Desmarest.

Desmarest published Histoire Naturelle des Tangaras, des Manakins et des Todiers (1805), Considérations générales sur la classe des crustacés (1825), Mammalogie ou description des espèces des Mammifères. Paris: Veuve Agasse(1820), and Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (1816-30, with André Marie Constant Duméril).His son Eugène Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest (1816-1889) was also a zoologist.