Charles Domergue Explained

Charles Antoine Domergue (5 January 1914 – 31 December 2008) was a French naturalist, ornithologist, herpetologist, spelunker and geologist who spent much of his life in Madagascar. He also dealt with the effects of pollution.

Eponyms

Domergue is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of snake, Madatyphlops domerguei, and a frog, Blommersia domerguei, both of which are endemic to Madagascar.[1] [2]

Selected publications

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Notes and References

  1. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Domergue", p. 74).
  2. Guibé. Jean. 1973. Batraciens nouveaux de Madagascar. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. 145. 109. 1009–1017.