Émile Deville, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Émile Deville

zoologist

Date of Birth: 25-Jan-1824

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 08-Jan-1853

Profession: physician, zoologist, ornithologist, taxidermist, explorer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Émile Deville

  • Émile Deville (25 January 1824 – 8 January 1853) was a French physician, naturalist and taxidermist.Emile Deville, already an employee of Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, joined the 1843 expedition of Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810-1880) to South America with the doctor and botanist Hugh Algernon Weddell (1819-1877).
  • He returned with many bird specimens, especially parrots, including two new species, Bonaparte's parakeet and the dusky-headed parakeet, which he described in 1851.
  • He also described, with Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, the white-tailed titi, and with de Castelnau, some crabs. A number of species bear his name, such as the blaze-winged parakeet, Pyrrhura devillei and the striated antbird, Drymophila devillei.The following are a few of the writings that are attributed to Deville: Description de quelques Mammifères et Oiseaux nouveaux de L'Amérique méridionale - Description of some new mammals and birds from South America. Note sur quatre espèces nouvelles d'oiseaux provenant de l'expédition de M.
  • Castelnau - Note on four new species of birds from the Castelnau expedition. Considérations sur les avantages de la naturalisation en France de l'alpaca - Considerations on the advantages for naturalization of the alpaca in France.

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