Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier (/ˈkjuːvieɪ/; French: [ʒɔʁʒ(ə) kyvje]), was a French...

Georges-Frédéric Cuvier (28 June 1773 – 24 July 1838) was a French zoologist and paleontologist. He was the younger brother of noted naturalist and zoologist...

antiquity, 2006, p. 105 Georges Cuvier, Tableau elementaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux (Paris, 1798) p.71 Georges Cuvier (1834). The Animal Kingdom...

Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) was a French naturalist and zoologist. Cuvier may also refer to: Cuvier Island, an island in the Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand Cuvier...

change to the Biblical account of Noah's flood. The French scientist Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) popularised the concept of catastrophism in the early 19th...

) Harris 2001, p. 87 Georges Cuvier, Tableau elementaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux (Paris, 1798) p. 71 Georges Cuvier, The Animal Kingdom: Arranged...

frequently-spotted beaked whales when surfacing. Cuvier's beaked whale was named Ziphius cavirostris by Georges Cuvier based on a skull fragment which he believed...

 'The Animal Kingdom') is the most famous work of the French naturalist Georges Cuvier. It sets out to describe the natural structure of the whole of the animal...

The Cuvier–Geoffroy debate of 1830 was a scientific debate between the two French naturalists Georges Cuvier and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. For around...

caiman by the pet trade community. Cuvier's dwarf caiman was first described by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier in 1807 and is one of only two species...

'skin') is an obsolete order of mammals described by Gottlieb Storr, Georges Cuvier, and others, at one time recognized by many systematists. Because it...

and 18th centuries, and at the end of the 18th century, the work of Georges Cuvier had ended a long running debate about the reality of extinction, leading...

following year wherein it caught the attention of the French paleontologist Georges Cuvier, who named the animal in 1796 and was the first to determine, by means...

including two prominent French scientists Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier. Buffon published thirty-six quarto volumes of his Histoire Naturelle...

Georges Louis Duvernoy (6 August 1777, Montbéliard, Doubs – 1 March 1855) was a French zoologist. He assisted Georges Cuvier in writing Leçons d'anatomie...

animals with radial symmetry, formed one of the four branches of Georges Cuvier's classification of the animal kingdom. Meanwhile, Bilateria is a taxonomic...

devised by Georges Cuvier, who first found one embedded in the mantle of a female argonaut. Supposing it to be a parasitic worm, in 1829 Cuvier gave it a...

and cuttlefish. In his 1817 work, Le Règne Animal, French zoologist Georges Cuvier combined evidence from comparative anatomy and palaeontology to divide...

bass, as it is known today, was first described by French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1828. A recent study concluded that the correct scientific name for...

is used mostly in a historical context. In the early 19th century, Georges Cuvier united Ctenophora and Cnidaria in the Radiata (Zoophytes). Thomas Cavalier-Smith...

red panda (the sole living representative) and its extinct relatives. Georges Cuvier first described Ailurus as belonging to the raccoon family in 1825;...

creatures. The mammoth was identified as an extinct species of elephant by Georges Cuvier in 1796. The woolly mammoth was roughly the same size as modern African...

treatment of ichthyology published in 1828–1849 by the French savant Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) and his student and successor Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865)...

Cynictis. Herpestes penicillatus was the scientific name proposed by Georges Cuvier in 1829 for a mongoose specimen from the Cape. The generic name Cynictis...

in 1816, which were republished by Georges Cuvier in the Memoires du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in 1817. Cuvier, who had met Baartman, notes in his...

animal are found in a quarry near Maastricht in the Netherlands. In 1808 Georges Cuvier identified it as an extinct marine reptile and in 1822 William Conybeare...

Latham in 1790, but moved to their current genus by French zoologist Georges Cuvier in 1800. Most members of the genus Regulus are similar in size and colour...

religious zodiac. Champollion placed the zodiac in the fourth century AD. Georges Cuvier placed the date between 123 AD and 147 AD. His discussion of the dating...

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Subphylum: Conchifera Class: Cephalopoda Cuvier, 1797 Subclasses Nautiloidea sensu lato (paraphyletic) Plectronoceratoidea †...

hours for the fishermen to row or sail back home. French naturalist Georges Cuvier described the black marlin in 1832 as Tetrapturus indicus. Compared...