Jacques Pucheran (2 June 1817 – 13 January 1895) was a French

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born in Clairac. He was a grandnephew to

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Étienne Serres (1786-1868). Pucheran accompanied the expedition on the ''Astrolabe'' between 1837 and 1840, under the command of

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, with fellow-naturalists Jacques Bernard Hombron and Honoré Jacquinot. On his return he contributed the ornithological section (with Jacquinot) of "''Voyage au Pôle sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes L'Astrolabe et La Zélée''" (1841–1854). (Short Ornithological Timeline) Pucheran worked as a zoologist and

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at the

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. He was the author of many works in the fields of

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, etc. With Florent Prévost and

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, he published a catalog involving species of mammals and birds kept in the collections at the museum, titled "''Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Paris. Catalogue méthodique,''" etc. (1851). He was a member of the Société d'Agen académique, and a chevalier in the

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and the Ordre de la Conception de Portugal.
IDREF.fr He classified numerous zoological

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, and the following are a few ornithological species that are named after him. * Black-cheeked woodpecker, ''Melanerpes pucherani'' ( Malherbe 1849) * Crested guineafowl, ''Guttera pucherani'' ( Hartlaub 1861) * Red-billed ground-cuckoo, ''Neomorphus pucheranii'' ( Deville 1851).

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1817 births 1894 deaths French zoologists Taxon authorities French ornithologists People from Lot-et-Garonne National Museum of Natural History (France) people {{France-zoologist-stub