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Polydore Roux

1792 – 1833

French naturalist

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Lived 1792 – 1833 (aged 40). Polydore Roux was a French naturalist, zoologist, entomologist, malacologist, carcinologist and ornithologist.

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. He published Catalogue d’insectes de Provence, 1820 a 2 volume work on birds Ornithologie provençale, 1833 and Crustacés de la Méditerranée et de son littoral, 1828–30, which including 45 coloured plates, which he himself had made. He also published on molluscs Iconographie conchyliologique, 1828.Marine painting was another of his occupations and a Roux family concern. Roux was a correspondent of Risso who in 1826 named the copepod Pandarus rouxi after him. In 1831 he joined Charles von Hügel, who was travelling for the Austrian government, on an excursion to Egypt and from there in 1832 to Bombay, where he later died of plague.

A species of Indian lizard, Monilesaurus rouxii, is named in his honour. It is also likely that the specific name of the longstriped blenny (Parablennius rouxi) honours Roux.

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Jean-Louis-Florent Roux, Jean Louis Florent Polydore Roux, Mr Polydore, de Marseille Roux

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Who was Polydore Roux?

French naturalist (1792–1833)

When was Polydore Roux born?

Polydore Roux was born on 27 July 1792 in Marseille.

When did Polydore Roux die?

Polydore Roux died on 12 April 1833.

What was Polydore Roux's occupation?

Polydore Roux was a naturalist, zoologist, entomologist, malacologist, carcinologist and ornithologist.

What nationality was Polydore Roux?

Polydore Roux was French.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Polydore Roux

· Wikidata: Q3395545

· DBpedia: Jean Louis Florent Polydore Roux

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