Zéphirin Gerbe

Jean-Joseph Zéphirin Gerbe (21 December 1810, Bras – 26 June 1890, Bras) was a French naturalist.

He was co-author of Ornithologie européenne, ou Catalogue analytique et raisonné des oiseaux observés en Europe with countryman Côme-Damien Degland (second edition, 1867).[1][2] He also published a French translation of Alfred Brehm's Illustrirtes Thierleben with the title La vie des animaux illustrée : description populaire du règne animal (4 volumes).[3]

Species he described include Gerbe's vole.[1]

Selected works

References

  1. 1 2 Bo Beolens; Michael Watkins; Michael Grayson (2009). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. JHU Press. p. 151. ISBN 9780801895333.
  2. Biodiversity Library works by Côme-Damien Degland
  3. HathiTrust Digital Library La vie des animaux illustrée
  4. Zéphirin Gerbe (1810-1890) Data BNF - Bibliothèque nationale de France

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