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    Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (6 September 1802 – 30 June 1857) was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas,...
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    more about the Black Jurassic in England. The French palaeontologist Alcide d'Orbigny in papers between 1842 and 1852 divided the Jurassic into ten stages...
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  • Orbigny may refer to: One of the abbreviations used for Alcide d'Orbigny in biological citations Orbigny, Indre-et-Loire, a commune in the Indre-et-Loire...
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    with a military career spanning over 57 years (b. 1766) June 30 – Alcide d'Orbigny, French naturalist (b. 1802) July 4 – Henry Lawrence, British soldier...
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  • Catharine Beecher, American educator and activist (died 1878) 1802 – Alcide d'Orbigny, French zoologist, palaeontologist, and geologist (died 1857) 1808...
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  • Abraham Yates Jr., American lawyer and politician (born 1724) 1857 – Alcide d'Orbigny, French zoologist and paleontologist (born 1802) 1882 – Charles J....
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    the Philippines. It was found in Central and South America and by Alcide d'Orbigny, a French naturalist, in 1842, where it was assigned the synonym Mytilus...
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    Black-faced antthrush (category Taxa named by Alcide d'Orbigny)
    antthrush was formally described in 1837 by the French naturalists Alcide d'Orbigny and Frédéric de Lafresnaye from a specimen collected in Bolivia. They...
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    La Plata dolphin (category Taxa named by Alcide d'Orbigny)
    family, Pontoporiidae. It was first described by Paul Gervais and Alcide d'Orbigny in 1844 (the species epithet blainvillei commemorates the French zoologist...
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    Lycée Franco-Bolivien Alcide d'Orbigny (Spanish: Colegio Franco Boliviano Alcide d'Orbigny) is a French international school in La Paz, Bolivia. The school...
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    Darwin's rhea (category Taxa named by Alcide d'Orbigny)
    specific name was bestowed in 1837 by Darwin's contemporary and rival Alcide d'Orbigny, who first described the bird to Europeans from a specimen from the...
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    the Cretaceous was implemented by Conybeare and Phillips in 1822. Alcide d'Orbigny in 1840 divided the French Cretaceous into five étages (stages): the...
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    naturalist and South American explorer, Alcide d'Orbigny. At the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, d'Orbigny classified many of the flowering plant...
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    geoffroyi in 1844 by French naturalists Alcide d'Orbigny and Paul Gervais on the basis of three specimens that d'Orbigny had collected on the banks of the Rio...
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    'baínō' (I go, I walk). The original lithograph print produced for Alcide d'Orbigny is captioned "Phalcobœnus montanus" with an o-e ligature, but his later...
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    Santa Cruz by Alcide's brother, Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny.[citation needed] It was first described in 1840 by Alcide d'Orbigny in Annales des...
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    Pristidactylus fasciatus, also known as d'Orbigny's banded anole, is a species of lizard endemic to Argentina. Abdala, S. (2017). "Pristidactylus fasciatus"...
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    White-eared titi monkey (category Taxa named by Alcide d'Orbigny)
    Species: P. donacophilus Binomial name Plecturocebus donacophilus (d'Orbigny, 1836) White-eared titi range Synonyms Callicebus donacophilus d'Orbigny, 1836...
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    brasiliensis. The specific name, dorbigni, is in honor of French naturalist Alcide d'Orbigny. The form of the plastron determines its gender. After a few years...
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    Pied-crested tit-tyrant (category Taxa named by Alcide d'Orbigny)
    pied-crested tit-tyrant has two subspecies, the nominate A. r. reguloides (D'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) and A. r. albiventris (Chapman, 1924). Some twentieth...
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    Filicrisia (category Taxa named by Alcide d'Orbigny)
    belonging to the family Crisiidae. It was first described in 1853 by Alcide d'Orbigny, and the type species is Filicrisia geniculata. The genus has almost...
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    Anolis fuscoauratus (category Taxa named by Alcide d'Orbigny)
    xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I-XXIV. ("Anolis fusco-auratus", pp. 48-49). d'Orbigny A (1837). In: Duméril AMC, Bibron G (1837). Erpétologie générale ou Histoire...
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    tunicata, Sepia being the cuttlefish genus. The French naturalist Alcide d'Orbigny renamed it Loligo gigas in 1835. In Chile, Claude Gay, another French...
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    Southern mountain cavy (category Taxa named by Alcide d'Orbigny)
    Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Caviidae Genus: Microcavia Species: M. australis Binomial name Microcavia australis (I. Geoffroy & d'Orbigny, 1833)...
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  • Alcide d'Orbigny (1802–1857) was a French naturalist and paleontologist who made contributions in zoology, geology, anthropology, and botany. d'Orbigny...
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    Mountain degu (category Taxa named by Alcide d'Orbigny)
    Octodontidae Genus: Octodontomys Palmer, 1903 Species: O. gliroides Binomial name Octodontomys gliroides (Gervais & d'Orbigny, 1844) O. gliroides range...
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    family Patellidae, one of the families of true limpets. The naturalist Alcide d'Orbigny named the gastropod after Ferdinand de Candé. The size of the shell...
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  • herpetologist Teresa Camacho Badani at the Museo de Historia Natural Alcide d'Orbigny (MHNC) in Cochabamba. A single male Sehuencas water frog, nicknamed...
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    White-crested elaenia (category Taxa named by Alcide d'Orbigny)
    diversa Zimmer, JT, 1941 E. a. urubambae Zimmer, JT, 1941 E. a. albiceps (D'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) E. a. modesta Tschudi, 1844 The South American Classification...
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    Alcadia minima (category Taxa named by Alcide d'Orbigny)
    notched columellar angle. This species occurs in Cuba. Alcadia minima (A. d'Orbigny, 1842). 4 August 2024. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species...
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