Adolphe-Simon Neboux (1806–1844) was a French surgeon and naturalist who accompanied the

frigate A frigate () is a type of warship. In different eras, the roles and capabilities of ships classified as frigates have varied somewhat. The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and ...

''Vénus'' under command of Admiral

Abel Aubert du Petit-Thouars __NOTOC__ Abel Aubert du Petit-Thouars (3 August 1793 – 16 March 1864) was a French naval officer important in France's annexation of French Polynesia. Early life He was born at the castle of La Fessardière, near Saumur. His uncle Aristide Aub ...

between the years 1836 and 1839, visiting the Pacific coastline of North America and the

Galápagos Islands The Galápagos Islands (Spanish: , , ) are an archipelago of volcanic islands. They are distributed on each side of the equator in the Pacific Ocean, surrounding the centre of the Western Hemisphere, and are part of the Republic of Ecuador ...

. Among species he described are the

swallow-tailed gull The swallow-tailed gull (''Creagrus furcatus'') is an equatorial seabird in the gull family, Laridae. It is the only species in the genus ''Creagrus'', which derives from the Latin ''Creagra'' and the Greek ''kreourgos'' which means butcher, al ...

and the

white-capped fruit-dove The white-capped fruit dove (''Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii'') is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It was described by French naturalist and surgeon Adolphe-Simon Neboux in 1840. It is endemic to the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesi ...

. In the Galapagos, he collected specimens of the

Galápagos dove The Galápagos dove (''Zenaida galapagoensis'') is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to the Galápagos, off Ecuador. It is fairly common and is found in a wide range of open and semi-open habitats, especially in the arid ...

Galápagos martin The Galápagos martin (''Progne modesta'') is a species of bird in the family Hirundinidae, endemic to the Galápagos Islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowla ...

medium ground finch The medium ground finch (''Geospiza fortis'') is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is endemic to the Galapagos Islands. Its primary natural habitat is tropical shrubland. One of Darwin's finches, the species was the first which scie ...

and the

common cactus finch The common cactus finch or small cactus finch (''Geospiza scandens'') is a species of bird in the Darwin's finch group of the tanager family Thraupidae. It is endemic to the Galapagos Islands, where it is found on most islands, with the notable ...

— these specimens were later presented to the ''

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'' in 1839.Archive.org
Full text of "Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History)" He is honoured in the scientific name of the

blue-footed booby The blue-footed booby (''Sula nebouxii'') is a marine bird native to subtropical and tropical regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is one of six species of the genus '' Sula'' – known as boobies. It is easily recognizable by its distinct ...

(''Sula nebouxii'').

Works associated with Adolphe-Simon Neboux

* ''Description d'oiseaux nouveaux recueillis pendant l'expedition de la Venus''. (1840), Revue Zoologique 3 : 289–291. * ''Les journaux de bord du "chirurgien naviguan" Adolphe-Simon Neboux'' (author: Claudine Rigaudeau-Privat, ed. Jean-Pierre Kernéis),

Université de Nantes The University of Nantes (french: Université de Nantes) is a public university located in the city of Nantes, France. In addition to the several campuses scattered in the city of Nantes, there are two satellite campuses located in Saint-Nazaire a ...

, (1978).SUDOC
Les journaux de bord du "chirurgien naviguan" Adolphe-Simon Neboux

References

1806 births 1844 deaths French ornithologists French naturalists {{France-scientist-stub