Auguste Boissonneau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French ornithologist and Ocularist
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Place of Birth: Tours, Centre-Val de Loire, France
About Auguste Boissonneau
- Auguste Boissonneau (26 July 1802, Saumur – 7 July 1883, Paris) was a French ornithologist and ocularist.
- In the latter field he was a pioneer of ocular prosthesis.As an ornithologist, he was the taxonomic authority of numerous species native to tropical and subtropical South America.
- The hummingbird genus Boissonneaua (Reichenbach, 1854) commemorates his name, as does the species Pseudocolaptes boissonneautii (streaked tuftedcheek), a bird circumscribed by Frédéric de Lafresnaye in 1840.
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