Jacques Pellegrin
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Jacques Pellegrin was a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 zoologist
Zoology
Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...

.

Pellegrin was born in Paris
Paris
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, and studied natural history
Natural history
Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...

. In 1894 he became assistant chairman of zoology
Zoology
Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...

 at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
The Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle is the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France.- History :The museum was formally founded on 10 June 1793, during the French Revolution...

, replacing Léon Vaillant
Léon Vaillant
Léon Louis Vaillant was a French zoologist. He is most famous for his work in the areas of herpetology, malacology, and ichthyology...

 (1834–1914).

He got his doctorate
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s in medicine
Medicine
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 (1899) and science
Science
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 (1904). In 1908 he was named assistant chair.

After many missions abroad, he became sub-director of the museum in 1937, and replaced Louis Roule as the chairperson of herpetology
Herpetology
Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians and reptiles...

 and ichthyology
Ichthyology
Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish. This includes skeletal fish , cartilaginous fish , and jawless fish...

.

He has published over 600 scientific books and articles and has discovered around 350 new species
Species
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. He named a number of fishes from the family Cichlidae and had a number of species named in his honour, such as Geophagus
Geophagus
Geophagus is a genus of cichlids from South America. The genus is currently polyphyletic and in need of further taxonomic revision. Some geophagine cichlids previously included in this genus have been reallocated to Gymnogeophagus or Satanoperca...

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