Marie Firmin Bocourt

Marie Firmin Bocourt
Marie Firmin Bocourt
	Marie Firmin Bocourt
Born	19 April 1819; Paris, France
Died	4 February 1904 (aged 84); Paris, France
Nationality	French
	Scientific career
Fields	Zoology;

Marie Firmin Bocourt (19 April 1819 – 4 February 1904) was a French zoologist and artist.

As a young man, he worked as a preparateur for the zoologist Gabriel Bibron (1805–1848), later serving as a museum artist. In 1861, he was sent to Thailand (then called Siam), where he explored the fauna and brought back an important collection of specimens.[1]

He collaborated with Auguste Duméril (1812–1870) on a series called Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale, a result of Bocourt's scientific expedition to Mexico and Central America in 1864–1866, in one part during the French Intervention in Mexico led by Napoleon III. Auguste Duméril died in 1870, and the project was continued by Bocourt with assistance from Léon Vaillant (1834–1914), François Mocquard (1834–1917) and Fernand Angel (1881–1950).[2][3] With Vaillant, he published a study on fishes, "Études sur les poissons ", that was included in Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale.[4]

As an artist, he specialized in engravings, doing portraits of contemporary people as well as zoological illustrations.

Delalande's coua (Coua delalandei ), chromolithic print by Bocourt et Fagnet, produced for Alfred Grandidier's L'Histoire Politique, Physique et Naturelle de Madagascar.

Taxa named in honor of Bocourt

Bocourt has a number of zoological species and subspecies named after him, including the following.

Bocourt's swimming crab, Callinectes bocourti A. Milne-Edwards, 1879, native to the Caribbean
Bocourt's eyelid skink, Phoboscincus bocourti (Brocchi, 1876),[5] native to New Caledonia
Bocourt's black-headed snake, Tantilla bocourti (Günther, 1895),[5][6] native to Mexico
Incilius bocourti (Brocchi, 1877), a Central American toad[1]
Craugastor bocourti (Brocchi, 1877), a frog native to Guatemala[1]
Hyla bocourti (Mocquard, 1899), a frog native to Guatemala[1]
Cincelichthys bocourti (Vaillant & Pellegrin, 1902), a Central American cichlid[7]
Agama bocourti Rochebrune, 1884,[5] a lizard native to West Africa
Anolis bocourtii Cope, 1876,[5] a lizard native to northern South America
Atractus bocourti Boulenger, 1894,[5] a snake native to northwestern South America
Micrurus bocourti (Jan, 1872),[5] a venomous snake native to northwestern South America
Mystus bocourti (Bleeker, 1864), a catfish native to Southeast Asia
Pangasius bocourti Sauvage, 1880, a catfish native to Southeast Asia
Polemon bocourti Mocquard, 1897,[5] a rear-fanged snake native to Central Africa
Sceloporus occidentalis bocourtii Boulenger, 1885,[5] a lizard native to California
Subsessor bocourti (Jan, 1865),[5] a snake native to Southeast Asia

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a different genus.

Works

Bocourt, F. (1868) Descriptions de quelques crotaliens nouveaux appartenant au genre Bothrops, recueillis dans le Guatemala. Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool., ser. 5, vol. 10, p. 201–202.
Duméril, A., Bocourt, F. Études sur les reptiles et les batraciens. en la serie "Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique centrale., recherches zoologiques", 3e partie, 1ère section. Paris: Imprimerie Impériale.
Duméril, A., Bocourt, F. & Mocquard, F. (1870-1909). Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale. Recherches zoologiques. Paris: Imprimerie Impériale
Bocourt, F. (1873a) Caractères d'une espèce nouvelle d'iguaniens le Sceleporus acathhinus. [Characters on a New Iguana Species, Sceleporus acathinus] Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. (5)17(6): 1.
Bocourt, F. (1873b) Deux notes sur quelques sauriens de l'Amérique tropicale. [Two Notes on Its Tropical (Pan-)American Lizards] Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. Paleontol. (5)19(4): 1–5.
Bocourt, F. (1873c) Note sur quelques espèces nouvelles d'iguaniens du genre Sceleporus. [Notes on the New Iguana Species of the Genre Sceleporus] Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. (5)17(10): 1–2.
Bocourt, F. (1873–1897) Études sur les reptiles. [Studies on Reptiles] Part 3, Sect. 1, Book. 2–15, pp. 33–860, Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale - Recherches Zoologiques. Paris, Imprimerie Imperiale. p. 1012
Bocourt, F. (1876a) Note sur quelques reptiles du Mexique. [Notes on Its Reptiles of Mexico] Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool.(6)3(12): 1–4.
Bocourt, F. (1876b) Note sur quelques reptiles de l'Isthme de Tehuantepec (Mexique) donnés par M. Sumichrast au Muséum. J. Zool. (Paris) 5: 386–411.
Bocourt, F. (1879) Etudes sur les reptiles. [Studies on Reptiles] Miss. Sci. Mexique, Rech. ZooL. Book. 6:361-440, p. 21–22, 22A-22D

gollark: Of course.

gollark: As a Go developer, you have surely encountered at some point something using the `container` package, containing things like `container/ring` (ring buffers), `container/list` (doubly linked list), and `container/heap` (heaps, somehow). You may also have noticed that use of these APIs requires `interface{}`uous type casting. As a Go developer you almost certainly do not care about the boilerplate, but know that this makes your code mildly slower, which you ARE to care about.

gollark: High demand for generics by programmers around the world is clear, due to the development of languages like Rust, which has highly generic generics, and is supported by Mozilla, a company. As people desire generics, the market *is* to provide them.

gollark: Hmm.

gollark: Interesting!

References

Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Exeter, England: Pelagic Publishing. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-907807-44-2.
Softcover, Antiquariaat Junk; (Adler, Kraig. History of Herpetology. pp. 43/44).
World Cat Titles Etudes sur les reptiles et les batraciens. (in French).
WorldCat Titles Études sur les poissons. (in French).
Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Bocourt", pp. 28-29).
Tantilla bocourti at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 December 2015.
Vaillant, Léon Louis; Pellegrin, Jacques (1902). "Cichlidés nouveaux de l'Amérique Centrale ". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 8: 85-86. (in French).

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[BeolensEtAl2013-1] Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Exeter, England: Pelagic Publishing. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-907807-44-2.

[2] Softcover, Antiquariaat Junk; (Adler, Kraig. History of Herpetology. pp. 43/44).

[3] World Cat Titles Etudes sur les reptiles et les batraciens. (in French).

[4] WorldCat Titles Études sur les poissons. (in French).

[EDR-5] Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Bocourt", pp. 28-29).

[RDB-6] Tantilla bocourti at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 December 2015.

[7] Vaillant, Léon Louis; Pellegrin, Jacques (1902). "Cichlidés nouveaux de l'Amérique Centrale ". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 8: 85-86. (in French).