Armando Dugand (July 23, 1906 – 1971) was a Colombian
botanist,
geobotanist
Phytogeography (from Greek φυτόν, ''phytón'' = "plant" and γεωγραφία, ''geographía'' = "geography" meaning also distribution) or botanical geography is the branch of biogeography that is concerned with the geographic distribution o ...
, and
ornithologist.
Dugand's father, François Victor (or Francisco Víctor) Dugand, was a successful French banker; his mother was Reyes Geneco (or Gnecco) Coronado.
[Borrero, José Ignacio (1975). "Obituaries: Armando Dugand". ''Auk'' 92: 210.] Dugand was educated in France and in the United States (at
Albany Business College). In 1927 he married Sara Roncallo.
In 1940 he co-founded the scientific journal ''Caldasia''.
[ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Dugand", p. 76).] He also founded two other scientific journals: ''Mutisia (Acta Botanica Colombiana)'' and ''Lozania (Acta Zoologica Colombiana).
He was director of the Institute of Natural Sciences of the
National University of Colombia from 1940 to 1953.
Dugand is commemorated in the scientific names of two snakes, ''
Trilepida dugandi''
[ and '' Scaphiodontophis annulatus dugandi''.][ Roze J (1969). "''Una nueva coral falsa del genero ''Scaphiodontophis'' (Serpentes: Colubridae) de Colombia'' ". ''Caldasia'' 10: 355–363. (in Spanish, with an English summary).]
References
1906 births
1971 deaths
20th-century Colombian zoologists
20th-century Colombian botanists
Albany Business College alumni
Colombian ornithologists
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