Armando Dugand (July 23, 1906 – 1971) was a Colombian

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. Dugand's father, François Victor (or Francisco Víctor) Dugand, was a successful French banker; his mother was Reyes Geneco (or Gnecco) Coronado.Borrero, José Ignacio (1975). "Obituaries: Armando Dugand". ''Auk'' 92: 210. Dugand was educated in France and in the United States (at Albany Business College). In 1927 he married Sara Roncallo. In 1940 he co-founded the scientific journal ''Caldasia''. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Dugand", p. 76). He also founded two other scientific journals: ''Mutisia (Acta Botanica Colombiana)'' and ''Lozania (Acta Zoologica Colombiana). He was director of the Institute of Natural Sciences of the

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from 1940 to 1953. Dugand is commemorated in the scientific names of two snakes, '' Trilepida dugandi'' and '' Scaphiodontophis annulatus dugandi''. Roze J (1969). "''Una nueva coral falsa del genero ''Scaphiodontophis'' (Serpentes: Colubridae) de Colombia'' ". ''Caldasia'' 10: 355–363. (in Spanish, with an English summary).

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