Louis François Auguste Souleyet
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Louis François Auguste Souleyet (1811–1852) was a French
zoologist, malacologist and naval surgeon
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Souleyet was naturalist-surgeon on the voyage of La Bonite, which circumnavigated the globe between February 1836 and November 1837 under Auguste Nicolas Vaillant (1793–1858). In the Pacific he studied marine molluscs. After the death of Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux
(1802–1841), Souleyet completed the zoological section of the voyage's official report in 1852.
Souleyet died of yellow fever
in Martinique
in 1852.
He named a number of marine molluscs and fish, but most of his new taxa were validated already two years earlier by John Edward Gray
, who Latinized all vernacular names published earlier in an undated (1842 ?) atlas by Eydoux & Souleyet. He is himself commemorated in the scientific name of the Streak-headed Woodcreeper
, Lepidocolaptes souleyetii, named for him by DesMurs
and in the Heteropod Protatlanta souleyeti
by Edgar A. Smith in 1888.
France
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zoologist, malacologist and naval surgeon
Surgeon
In medicine, a surgeon is a specialist in surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such as the removal of diseased tissue or to repair a tear or breakage...
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Souleyet was naturalist-surgeon on the voyage of La Bonite, which circumnavigated the globe between February 1836 and November 1837 under Auguste Nicolas Vaillant (1793–1858). In the Pacific he studied marine molluscs. After the death of Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux
Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux
Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux (1802 - 1841 was a French naturalist.Eydoux and Louis François Auguste Souleyet were surgeon naturalists on the expedition ship "La Favorite" which made a circumnavigation in 1830-32 captained by Cyrille...
(1802–1841), Souleyet completed the zoological section of the voyage's official report in 1852.
Souleyet died of yellow fever
Yellow fever
Yellow fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease. The virus is a 40 to 50 nm enveloped RNA virus with positive sense of the Flaviviridae family....
in Martinique
Martinique
Martinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of . Like Guadeloupe, it is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. To the northwest lies Dominica, to the south St Lucia, and to the southeast Barbados...
in 1852.
He named a number of marine molluscs and fish, but most of his new taxa were validated already two years earlier by John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray, FRS was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray ....
, who Latinized all vernacular names published earlier in an undated (1842 ?) atlas by Eydoux & Souleyet. He is himself commemorated in the scientific name of the Streak-headed Woodcreeper
Streak-headed Woodcreeper
The Streak-headed Woodcreeper , is a passerine bird which breeds in the tropical New World from southern Mexico to northwestern Peru, northern Brazil and Guyana, and on Trinidad....
, Lepidocolaptes souleyetii, named for him by DesMurs
Marc Athanese Parfait Oeillet Des Murs
Marc Athanase Parfait Oeillet Des Murs was a French ornithologist.Des Murs published Iconographie Ornithologique in 1849 and Traité général d’oologie ornithologique au point de vue de la classification, General treatise on birds eggs from the point of view of classification, in 1860-External...
and in the Heteropod Protatlanta souleyeti
Protatlanta souleyeti
Protatlanta souleyeti is a species of sea snail, a holoplanktonic marine gastropod mollusk in the family Atlantidae.Protatlanta souleyeti is the type species on the genus Protatlanta...
by Edgar A. Smith in 1888.
See also
- European and American voyages of scientific explorationEuropean and American voyages of scientific explorationThe era of European and American voyages of scientific exploration followed the Age of Discovery and were inspired by a new confidence in science and reason that arose in the Age of Enlightenment...