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    Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (6 March 1784 – 4 June 1838) was a French zoologist and author. He was the son of Nicolas Desmarest and father of Eugène Anselme...
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  • Eugène Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest (1816–1889) was a French zoologist and entomologist. He was the son of Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1734–1838). Partial...
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  • Desmarest is the name of more than one French scientist: Nicolas Desmarest (1725–1815), and his son, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784–1838) his son, Eugène...
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    be eaten in harmful quantities. The genus was named in honor of Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest. AlgaeBase lists 32 currently accepted species within the genus...
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    Red kangaroo (category Taxa named by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest)
    along the northern coast. The initial description of the species by A.G. Desmarest was published in 1822. The type location was given as an unknown location...
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    living species of the genus Otocyon. Its scientific name, given by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, was initially Canis megalotis (due to its close resemblance to...
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    Potoroo (category Taxa named by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest)
    merged this to three species. The genus was named Potorous by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1804, an epithet that was replaced by Illiger with the name...
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    gundlachianus found on Cayo Fragaso. The common name, Desmarest's hutia, is for Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest who described the species in 1822 with the synonym...
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    individuals. The scientific name Tapirus indicus was proposed by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1819 who referred to a Tapir described by Pierre-Médard Diard...
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    Red-necked wallaby (category Taxa named by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest)
    1825) – red-necked wallaby [Australian mainland] N. r. rufogriseus (Desmarest, 1817) sensu lato – Bennett's wallaby, which is sometimes replaced by:...
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    name Viverra suricatta. The generic name Suricata was proposed by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1804, who also described a zoological specimen from the Cape...
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    priority as the official name of the genus.: 58–59  French naturalist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest coined the name Phascolarctos fuscus in 1820, suggesting that the...
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    Indian rhino). Rhinoceros sondaicus was the scientific name used by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1822 for a rhinoceros from Java sent by Pierre-Médard Diard...
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    Auvergne was published after his death, in 1823, by his son Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784-1838), who was distinguished as a zoologist, and author of memoirs...
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    bat. The scientific name of the species was first published by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1820. Leschenault's rousette is brown to grey-brown in colour...
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    Semnopithecus (category Taxa named by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest)
    Cercopithecidae Subfamily: Colobinae Tribe: Presbytini Genus: Semnopithecus Desmarest, 1822 Type species Simia entellus Dufresne, 1797 Species S. schistaceus...
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    description of the species was given by French paleontologist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1822, who gave the current name Hippopotamus minor. The species...
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    Tasmanian pademelon (category Taxa named by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest)
    of the behaviour of the red-bellied pademelon Thylogale billardierii (Desmarest 1822) in captivity (PDF) (B.Sc. thesis). University of Tasmania. Retrieved...
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    specimens were described between 1820 and 1992: Viverra bondar by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1820 was a specimen from Bengal Viverra musanga by Stamford...
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    were originally given the same binomial name as those in Europe, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest believed that they were a different species. Historically, the...
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    Calyptorhynchus (category Taxa named by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest)
    Described by French naturalist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1826, the genus Calyptorhynchus has two species of cockatoos. They are all mostly black in colour...
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    encountered in northern Ethiopia by James Bruce. Felis cafra by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1822 was based on two wildcat skins from South Africa's Eastern...
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    Tammar wallaby (category Taxa named by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest)
    : 53  It was first described in 1817 by the French naturalist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, who gave it the name eugenii based on a specimen found on an island...
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    Saki monkey (category Taxa named by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest)
    K. (2014-08-01). "A Taxonomic Revision of the Saki Monkeys, Pithecia Desmarest, 1804". Neotropical Primates. 21 (1): 1–165. doi:10.1896/044.021.0101...
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    did not assign a binomial name for the "tapir of Malacca", and Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest coined Tapirus indicus in 1819 (Lydekker 1900: 31). In December...
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    Suricata (category Taxa named by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest)
    Feliformia Family: Herpestidae Subfamily: Mungotinae Genus: Suricata Desmarest, 1804 Type species Mustela suricatta Schreber, 1776 Species Suricata suricatta...
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    genus Ramphocelus which was introduced by the French zoologist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1805. The Brazilian tanager is a typical member of the family...
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    Guinea baboon (category Taxa named by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest)
    Haplorhini Infraorder: Simiiformes Family: Cercopithecidae Genus: Papio Species: P. papio Binomial name Papio papio (Desmarest, 1820)      Guinea baboon range...
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    Western grey kangaroo (category Taxa named by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest)
    Diprotodontia Family: Macropodidae Genus: Macropus Species: M. fuliginosus Binomial name Macropus fuliginosus Desmarest, 1817 Western grey kangaroo range...
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    "hidden" and rhynchus/ρυγχος "beak". The change was first made by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1826. In 1827, Jennings proposed the name Psittacus niger for...
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