René Primevère Lesson (20 March 1794 – 28 April 1849) was a French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist. Lesson was born at Rochefort... 20 KB (2,237 words) - 14:20, 5 April 2024 |
name of a genus Pitohui which was established by the French naturalist René Lesson in 1831. The unitalicized common name however refers to perching birds... 6 KB (673 words) - 10:24, 19 April 2024 |
Anna's hummingbird (category Taxa named by René Lesson) French naturalist René Lesson in his Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux-Mouches from a specimen that had been collected in California. Lesson placed it in the... 27 KB (2,756 words) - 17:24, 27 April 2024 |
Marabou stork (category Taxa named by René Lesson) marabou stork was formally described in 1831 by the French naturalist René Lesson. He placed it in the stork genus Ciconia and coined the binomial name... 14 KB (1,632 words) - 12:05, 28 February 2024 |
Pesquet's parrot (category Taxa named by René Lesson) Family: Psittaculidae Subfamily: Psittrichasinae Genus: Psittrichas Lesson, 1831 Species: P. fulgidus Binomial name Psittrichas fulgidus (Lesson, 1830)... 5 KB (437 words) - 01:40, 15 February 2024 |
Lamprolepis smaragdina (category Taxa named by René Lesson) Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Family: Scincidae Genus: Lamprolepis Species: L. smaragdina Binomial name Lamprolepis smaragdina (Lesson, 1830)... 5 KB (597 words) - 01:21, 4 March 2024 |
Bartramia (bird) (category Taxa named by René Lesson) Class: Aves Order: Charadriiformes Family: Scolopacidae Subfamily: Tringinae Genus: Bartramia Lesson, 1831 Species Bartramia longicauda †Bartramia umatilla... 1 KB (50 words) - 12:46, 1 January 2024 |
Pilot whale (category Taxa named by René Lesson) Cetacea Family: Delphinidae Subfamily: Globicephalinae Genus: Globicephala Lesson, 1828 Type species Delphinus globiceps Cuvier, 1812 Species Globicephala... 49 KB (5,886 words) - 01:30, 24 March 2024 |
Diphyllodes (category Taxa named by René Lesson) Diphyllodes is a genus of birds-of-paradise. Established by René-Primevère Lesson in 1834, it contains two species: the magnificent bird-of-paradise and... 2 KB (98 words) - 01:12, 4 January 2024 |
Lesson's motmot (Momotus lessonii) or the blue-diademed motmot, is a colorful near-passerine bird found in forests and woodlands of southern Mexico to... 3 KB (191 words) - 09:19, 13 August 2023 |
Tooth-billed tanager (category Taxa named by René Lesson) desidiosa Bangs & Noble, 1918 (southwestern Colombia) Piranga lutea lutea (Lesson, 1834) (southwestern Colombia amd northwestern Bolivia) The tooth-billed... 3 KB (213 words) - 14:39, 28 April 2024 |
Uakari (category Taxa named by René Lesson) Infraorder: Simiiformes Family: Pitheciidae Subfamily: Pitheciinae Genus: Cacajao Lesson, 1840 Type species Simia melanocephalus Humboldt, 1812 Species Cacajao melanocephalus... 8 KB (854 words) - 11:29, 10 April 2024 |
Aonyx (category Taxa named by René Lesson) University Press. pp. 601–602. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. Lesson, Réné-Primeverre (1827). "XCIIe Genre. Aonyx, Aonyx". Manuel de mammalogie... 9 KB (584 words) - 18:45, 20 April 2024 |
Currawong (category Taxa named by René Lesson) Backyards – Birds Behaving Badly – Pied Currawong (Site on pest status of pied currawong) "Strepera (Strepera) Lesson, 1830". Atlas of Living Australia.... 15 KB (1,437 words) - 13:40, 25 January 2024 |
Hopping mouse (category Taxa named by René Lesson) Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Muridae Tribe: Hydromyini Genus: Notomys Lesson, 1842 Type species Dipus mitchelli Species N. alexis †N. amplus N. aquilo... 7 KB (793 words) - 04:06, 10 December 2023 |
Inca dove (category Taxa named by René Lesson) dove. The species was first described by French surgeon and naturalist René Lesson in 1847. It reaches a length of 16.5–23 cm (6.5–9.1 in) and weighs 30–58 g... 6 KB (675 words) - 18:55, 6 February 2024 |
Varanus douarrha (category Taxa named by René Lesson) Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Family: Varanidae Genus: Varanus Species: V. douarrha Binomial name Varanus douarrha (Lesson, 1830)... 693 bytes (37 words) - 07:53, 30 May 2022 |
Koklass pheasant (category Taxa named by René Lesson) m. joretiana (Heude, 1883) Indian koklass pheasant - P. m. macrolopha (Lesson R.P., 1829) Meyer's koklass pheasant - P. m. meyeri (Madarász, 1886) Nepal... 6 KB (642 words) - 01:44, 29 April 2024 |
Brown mouse lemur (category Taxa named by René Lesson) author of this species, but he neglected to assign it a specific epithet. René Lesson would later give the animal a proper taxonomic name as Microcebus rufus... 7 KB (819 words) - 16:26, 11 April 2024 |
Talegalla (category Taxa named by René Lesson) a genus of bird in the family Megapodiidae. First described by René Primevère Lesson in 1828, it contains the following species: Red-billed brushturkey... 2 KB (142 words) - 11:51, 31 December 2023 |
Palawan peacock-pheasant (category Taxa named by René Lesson) display behaviour. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 73(2): 187–198. HTML abstract Lesson, René-Primevère (1831): Traite d'Ornithologie 7:487; 8: 650. Temminck, Coenraad... 9 KB (1,015 words) - 04:41, 18 December 2023 |
Moho (genus) (category Taxa named by René Lesson) are known from Maui and known in literature as the Maui ʻōʻō, Moho sp.): Lesson, R. P. (1831). Traité d'Ornithologie. Vol. Livr. 4. Paris: Levrault (published... 7 KB (504 words) - 16:11, 22 April 2024 |
Mugger crocodile (category Taxa named by René Lesson) accidents. Crocodilus palustris was the scientific name proposed by René Lesson in 1831 who described the type specimen from the Gangetic plains. In... 61 KB (6,231 words) - 03:19, 17 March 2024 |
Nuthatch (category Taxa named by René Lesson) its English name. The nuthatch family, Sittidae, was described by René-Primevère Lesson in 1828. Sometimes the wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria), which is... 52 KB (4,503 words) - 00:54, 1 April 2024 |
Mitu (bird) (category Taxa named by René Lesson) Aves Order: Galliformes Family: Cracidae Subfamily: Cracinae Genus: Mitu Lesson, 1831 Type species Ourax mitu Temminck ( = Crax mitu Linnaeus) Species M... 2 KB (87 words) - 11:53, 31 December 2023 |
Megapode (category Taxa named by René Lesson) Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Galliformes Family: Megapodiidae Lesson, 1831 Genera Eulipoa Megapodius Macrocephalon Leipoa Talegalla Aepypodius... 18 KB (1,669 words) - 00:57, 10 March 2024 |
Ground hornbill (category Taxa named by René Lesson) Bucorvus was introduced, originally as a subgenus, by the French naturalist René Lesson in 1830 with the Abyssinian ground hornbill Bucorvus abyssinicus as the... 7 KB (489 words) - 04:49, 14 April 2024 |
Pitohui (genus) (category Taxa named by René Lesson) The genus Pitohui was introduced in 1831 by the French naturalist René Lesson. Lesson omitted to specify the type species but this was designated as the... 7 KB (542 words) - 00:50, 4 January 2024 |
Weddell seal (category Taxa named by René Lesson) Phocidae Genus: Leptonychotes Gill, 1872 Species: L. weddellii Binomial name Leptonychotes weddellii (Lesson, 1826) Weddell seal range Water Ice Range... 28 KB (3,367 words) - 01:00, 9 April 2024 |