About Zéphirin Gerbe
Lived 1810 – 1890 (aged 79). Zéphirin Gerbe was a French naturalist, ornithologist and zoologist.
Jean-Joseph Zéphirin Gerbe (21 December 1810 in Bras – 26 June 1890 in Bras) was a French naturalist. He was the first to discover the pattern of wing taxis, the absence (diastataxis) or presence (eutaxy) of the fifth secondary in birds.
He was co-author of Ornithologie européenne, ou Catalogue analytique et raisonné des oiseaux observés en Europe with countryman Côme-Damien Degland (second edition, 1867). He also published a French translation of Alfred Brehm's Illustrirtes Thierleben with the title La vie des animaux illustrée : description populaire du règne animal (4 volumes).
Species he described include Gerbe's vole.
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French naturalist (1810–1890)
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Zéphirin Gerbe was born on 21 December 1810 in Bras.
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Zéphirin Gerbe died on 26 June 1890 in Bras.
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Zéphirin Gerbe was a naturalist, ornithologist and zoologist.
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Zéphirin Gerbe was French.
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