Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet
Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet (26 August 1809 – 9 October 1892) was a French naturalist, born in Lays, Doubs. He was a member of the Commission to Algeria, primarily as a natural artist, drawing any natural findings. He collected specimens in the Canary Islands, Guatemala and Mexico.[1]
He had a particular interest in molluscs and was recognised as a leading expert in the field.[2]
Morelet married Noémie de Folin, sister of Léopold de Folin. Morelet died of natural causes in 1892, in Dijon.
Taxa described
Morelet described various taxa, including:
- Cyclophorus horridulum (Morelet, 1882) - a species of land snail
- Crocodylus moreletii (Morelet, 1850) - a crocodile[1]
Taxa named in his honour
Taxa named in honour of Arthur Morelet include:
- Agalychnis moreletii (A.M.C. Duméril, 1853) – Morelet's Treefrog
- Crocodylus moreletii (A.H.A. Duméril & Bibron, 1851) – Morelet's Crocodile[1]
- Mesaspis moreletii (Bocourt, 1871) – Morelet's alligator lizard[1]
- Ommatoiulus moreletii (Lucas, 1860) – Portuguese millipede
- Sporophila morelleti (Bonaparte, 1850) – Morelet's seedeater[3]
Gastropods:
- Clavator moreleti Crosse & Fischer, 1868
- Conus moreleti Crosse, 1858
- Edentulina moreleti (Adams, 1868)
- Leidyula moreleti (Fischer, 1871)
- Letourneuxia moreleti (P. Hesse, 1884)
- Onoba moreleti Dautzenberg, 1889
- Patella moreleti Drouet, 1858
Bibliography
References
- Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Morelet", pp. 182-183).
- Fumagalli, Maria Cristina; Hulme, Peter; Robinson, Owen; Wylie, Lesley (2013). Surveying the American Tropics : A Literary Geography from New York to Rio. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. pp. 116–117. ISBN 9781846318900.
- "Fifty-ninth Supplement to the American Ornithological Society's Check-list of North American Birds", The Auk 135: 798-813, at p. 809. doi:10.1642/AUK-18-62.1. For a full taxonomic history of this species with copious references, see R. Wright, "Sharpe's Pygmy Finch", Birding New Jersey, June 22, 2018.
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