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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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    Conybeare and William Phillips in 1822. The French palaeontologist Alcide d'Orbigny in papers between 1842 and 1852 divided the Jurassic into ten stages...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Minchin Øjvind Moestrup O.F. Müller Carl Nägeli Hermann Neubert [de] Alcide d'Orbigny Lindsay Shepherd Olive [de] Adolf Pascher David J. Patterson Eugène...
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    description of this species was made in 1830 by the French scientist Alcide d'Orbigny after he encountered it in the region of Vacas, Cochabamba, in Bolivia...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    ornithology. Lafresnaye described a number of new bird species, some with Alcide d'Orbigny. He accumulated a collection of over 8,000 bird skins at his home....
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    Doryteuthis gahi (category Taxa named by Alcide d'Orbigny)
    to Doryteuthis gahi. Finn, Julian (2018). "Doryteuthis (Amerigo) gahi (d'Orbigny, 1835)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 11 November...
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    French ornithologist Frédéric de Lafresnaye and the French zoologist Alcide d'Orbigny after the latter had collected it on an expedition he undertook for...
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    specific name was bestowed in 1834 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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    Henri-Joseph d'Orbigny (16 May 1845, Paris – 29 June 1915, Paris) was a French architect and entomologist, son of the traveller and paleontologist Alcide d'Orbigny...
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    Inia (category Taxa named by Alcide d'Orbigny)
    America containing one to four species. The genus was described by Alcide d'Orbigny in 1834 when Delphinus geoffrensis, described by Henri Marie Ducrotay...
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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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  • by the Cenomanian. The Albian Stage was first proposed in 1842 by Alcide d'Orbigny. It was named after Alba, the Latin name for River Aube in France....
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    Teius oculatus (category Taxa named by Alcide d'Orbigny)
    Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Family: Teiidae Genus: Teius Species: T. oculatus Binomial name Teius oculatus (d’Orbigny & Bibron, 1837)...
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    opposite way from those of nautili and that they lacked a nerve tube. Alcide d'Orbigny, in his 1826 work, considered them to be a group of minute cephalopods...
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    containing the same major fossil assemblages. French palaeontologist Alcide d'Orbigny is credited for the invention of this concept. He named stages after...
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  • Arcticidae. This species was described by Alcide d'Orbigny in 1843. d'Orbigny 1843, p. 103 d'Orbigny, Alcide (1843). Paléontologie française. Description...
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    was introduced in scientific literature by French palaeontologist Alcide d'Orbigny in 1840. The base of the Aptian Stage is laid at magnetic anomaly M0r...
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    geoffroyi in 1844 by French naturalists Alcide d'Orbigny and P. Gervais on the basis of three specimens that d'Orbigny had collected on the banks of the Rio...
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  • England. The name was introduced into the literature by French geologist Alcide d'Orbigny in 1842. The Kimmeridge Clay Formation takes its name from the same...
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    Turonian (French: Turonien) was defined by the French paleontologist Alcide d'Orbigny (1802–1857) in 1842. Orbigny named it after the French city of Tours...
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