Antoine Alphonse Guichenot (31 July 1809 in

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– 17 February 1876 in

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) was a French

zoologist Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. Zoology is one ...

who taught, researched, and participated in specimen collecting trips on behalf of the ''

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History ( ; abbr. MNHN) is the national natural history museum of France and a of higher education part of Sorbonne University. The main museum, with four galleries, is located in Paris, France, within the Ja ...

'' (Paris), including an extensive biological survey of

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. His primary fields of research included fish and

reptiles Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with an ectothermic metabolism and Amniotic egg, amniotic development. Living traditional reptiles comprise four Order (biology), orders: Testudines, Crocodilia, Squamata, and Rhynchocepha ...

. He is credited with describing the ichthyological genera ''

Agonomalus ''Agonomalus'' is a genus of Agonidae, poachers native to the Pacific Ocean. Species There are currently three recognized species in this genus: * ''Agonomalus jordani'' David Starr Jordan, D. S. Jordan & Edwin Chapin Starks, Starks, 1904 * ''Ag ...

'', ''

Neosebastes ''Neosebastes'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes, belonging to the subfamily Neosebastinae, the gurnard scorpionfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae. These fishes are found in the Indian and Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy Neosebastes was fir ...

'' (gurnard scorpionfishes) and '' Glossanodon''. He also described numerous new species, including the

New Caledonian crested gecko The crested gecko (''Correlophus ciliatus''), also known commonly as the eyelash gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Diplodactylidae. The species is native to southern New Caledonia. Originally described in 1866 by French zoologist Alph ...

, ''Correlophus ciliatis'' (changed to ''Rhacodactylus ciliatus'' in 1994, but reclassified as ''Correlophus ciliatis'' in 2012). He retired to solely an assistant naturalist position in 1856, and died in 1876 in

, France.

Tribute

Several fish species commemorate his name, an example being '' Paracanthobrama guichenoti''

Bleeker Bleeker is a Dutch occupational surname. Bleeker is an old spelling of ''(linnen)bleker'' ("linen bleacher").Lampropholis guichenoti''.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Guichenot", p. 111). ''

Coreius guichenoti ''Coreius guichenoti'' is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Coreius'' found the upper reaches of the Yangtze in China. Although patronym not identified but clearly in honor of the authors’ colleague, zoologist Antoine Alphonse Guichen ...

'' ( Sauvage & Dabry de Thiersant, 1874) was also named in his honor.

Selected works

*(1839). ''Monographie de deux genres de poissons, les lépisostées et les polyptères, de la famille des elupcoïdes de Cuvier, et de celle des siagonotes de Duméril, précédée de quelques considérations sur ces genres''. *(1847). ''Aperçu géographique sur les poissons du Chile''. Rev. Zool., 1847, 10, 333-336. *(1848). ''Notice sur l'établissement d'un nouveau genre de Chétodons égaprotodom' Rev. Zool., 1848, 11, 12-14. *(1848). ''Peces de Chile'' (In Gay, Claudio. ''Historia física v política de Chile''. Paris & Santiago, 1848). (in Spanish). *(1850). ''Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie''. Paris, 1850. pis. 1850.2 Vol. iii, Zoologie. Histoire naturelle des reptiles et des poissons. *(1859). ''Notice sur deux espèces nouvelles de poissons du genre Cyprinodon - cyanogaster, C. dolmlus' Rev. Mag. Zool., 1859, 2. sér. 11, 377-380. *(1866). ''Catalogue des poissons de Madagascar de la collection du Musée de Paris, avec la description de plusieurs espèces nouvelles''. Mém. Soc. Sei. Nat. Cherbourg, 1866, 12, 129-148.A-K. 1916
by Bashford Dean, Charles Rochester Eastman, Eugene Willis Gudger, Arthur Wilbur Henn *(1866). ''Le Trigle polyommate, nouveau genre de poissons'', (etc.). Ichthyologie. Ann. Soc. Maine-et-Loire, IX. Alphonse Guichenot. Hoplonotus Guichenot, IX, 3; orthotype Trigla Polyommata Rich. Preoccupied in beetles, 1851; replaced by Pterygotrigla Waite (1899) and later by Otohime Jordan & Starks (1905). *(1866). ''Le Zancle centrognathe, nouveau genre de Chitodons''. Ann. Soc. Maine-et-Loire, IX. Alphonse Guichenot. Gnathocentrum Guichenot, IX, 4; orthotype G. Centrognathum Guich. = Chaetodon Cornutus L . A synonym of Zanclus. *(1866). ''L'Argentine leioglosse, nouveau genre de Salmonoides''. Ann. Soc. Maine-et-Loire, IX. Glossanodon Guichenot, IX, 9; orthotype Argentina Leioglossa Cuv. & Val. *(1866). ''Notice sur un nouveau genre de la famille des Cottoides'', etc. Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg. Agonomalus Guichenot, 252; orthotype Aspidophalus Proboscidalis Val. *(1867). ''Notice sur le néosébaste, nouveau genre de poissons de la famille des scorpènoides, et description d'une nouvelle espèce [Neosebastes scorpœnoides Guich.i Mém. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg'', 1867,13, 83-89. *(1869). ''Notice sur quelques poissons inédits de Madagascar et de la Chine''. Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 1869, б, 193-206.

Taxon described by him

*See :Taxa named by Alphonse Guichenot

References

''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles'' by Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson
(biographical information).

External links

* Bauer, Aaron M.; Jackman, Todd R.; Sadlier, Ross A.; Whitaker, Anthony H. (2012)
"Revision of the giant geckos of New Caledonia (Reptilia: Diplodactylidae: ''Rhacodactylus'')". ''Zootaxa'' 3404: 1–52.
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