Charles Antoine Domergue (5 January 1914 – 31 December 2008) was a French

naturalist Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. A person who studies natural history is cal ...

ornithologist Ornithology, from Ancient Greek ὄρνις (''órnis''), meaning "bird", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is a branch of zoology dedicated to the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related discip ...

herpetologist Herpetology (from Ancient Greek ἑρπετόν ''herpetón'', meaning "reptile" or "creeping animal") is a branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, salamanders, and caecilians (Gymnophiona)) and reptiles (in ...

, spelunker and

geologist A geologist is a scientist who studies the structure, composition, and History of Earth, history of Earth. Geologists incorporate techniques from physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, and geography to perform research in the Field research, ...

who spent much of his life in

Madagascar Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island country that includes the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands. Lying off the southeastern coast of Africa, it is the world's List of islands by area, f ...

. He also dealt with the effects of pollution. Charles_Domergue

Eponyms

Domergue is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of snake, '' Madatyphlops domerguei'', and a frog, ''

Blommersia domerguei ''Blommersia domerguei'' is a species of frog in the family Mantellidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical h ...

'', both of which are

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to Madagascar.

Selected publications

*1942: ''Les serpents de Franche-Comté : Description, habitat, reproduction, venin, chasse, vie en captivité, légendes suivis d'une brève étude des lézards'' (). édition Imprimerie de l'Est (Besançon) *1962: ''Un serpent venimeux à Madagascar : Madagascarophis colubrina.'' Bull. Acad. malg. *1963: ''Observation sur les hémipénis des ophidiens et sauriens de Madagascar.'' Bull. Acad. malg., 21–23. *1967: ''Clé simplifiée pour la détermination sur le terrain des serpents communs de Madagascar.'' Bull. Acad. malg. *1970: ''Notes sur les Serpents de la Région Malgache. Lycodryas maculatus (Günther, 1858), espèce des Comores. Description de deux femelles.'' Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. Paris, 42 : 449–451. *1972–1973: ''II. Étude de trois Serpents malgaches : Liopholidophis lateralis (D. & B.), L. stumpffi (Boettger) et L. thieli n. sp.'' Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. Paris, 77 : 1397–1412. *1973: ''Notes sur les Caméléons de Madagascar''. *1983: ''La forêt du PK 32 au nord de Tuléar. Note préliminaire en vue de sa mise en réserve.'' Bull. Acad. malg., 61 : 105–114 *1994: ''Nouvelles espèces du complexe Stenophis et Lycodrias.'' Bull. Acad. malg. 21 avril. *1994: ''Notes sur les serpents de la région malgache. X. Boïginae nouveaux des genres Stenophis et Lycodrias.'' Bull. Acad. malg.

Decorations

* ''Croix de guerre'' 1939–1945 *1946: ''

Médaille de la Résistance The Resistance Medal (, ) was a decoration bestowed by the French Committee of National Liberation, based in the United Kingdom, during World War II. It was established by a decree of General Charles de Gaulle on 9 February 1943 "to recognize the ...

'' *1950: '' Nischan-el-Iftikhar-Orden'' *14 July 1967:

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five cl ...

Sources

*Domergue, Sylvie (2008)
"Travelling Through Time - ''Voyage dans le temps'': Charles A. Domergue".
''Madagascar Conservation & Development'' 3 (1): 78–83. (in English and French).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Domergue, Charles 1914 births 2008 deaths French herpetologists French naturalists French ornithologists Scientists from Besançon 20th-century French geologists 20th-century French zoologists 20th-century naturalists