Justin Goudot (1802 – c. 1850) was a French

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, and

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collector. Goudot was born in Jura, France. He was attached to the

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in Paris as a collector naturalist. From 1822 to 1842 he was charged by the

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government with founding scientific institutions. From 1828 Goudot began collecting bird skins for the Paris museum which held what was then the world's largest bird collection. He also collected mammals, reptiles, molluscs, insects and other invertebrates as well as botanical material. He returned to France in December 1842, and between 1843 and 1846 published a series of papers on the flora and fauna of

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. After 1848 he again visited Colombia, where he died around 1850. The shining-green hummingbird (''Lepidopyga goudoti'' ) was named in his honour by

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, and René-Primevère Lesson named the

sickle-winged guan The sickle-winged guan (''Chamaepetes goudotii'') is a species of bird in the chachalaca, guan, and curassow family Cracidae. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Claramunt, A. J ...

(''Chamaepetes goudotii'' ) for him.

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collected by Goudot were described by

Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart (8 April 1778 – 25 November 1855) was a French entomologist specialising in the study of Fly, flies. He worked on world species as well as European and described many new species. Biography Early life Macquart wa ...

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Leptotyphlops goudotii ''Epictia goudotii'', also known Common name, commonly as the black blind snake and the southern Caribbean threadsnake, is a species of snake in the Family (biology), family Leptotyphlopidae. The species is Endemism, endemic to Middle America (Am ...

'', was named in his honour by

André Marie Constant Duméril André Marie Constant Duméril (1 January 1774 – 14 August 1860) was a French zoologist. He was professor of anatomy at the National Museum of Natural History (France), Muséum national d'histoire naturelle from 1801 to 1812, when he became pr ...

and

Gabriel Bibron Gabriel Bibron (20 October 1805 – 27 March 1848) was a French zoologist and herpetologist. He was born in Paris. The son of an employee of the Museum national d'histoire naturelle, he had a good foundation in natural history and was ...

.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Goudot, J.-M.", p. 104).

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