Jean Charles Coquerel (2 December 1822 – 12 April 1867) was a French navy surgeon, algologist, and

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

. Coquerel collected

insect Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body ( head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs ...

s in

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

and neighbouring islands. A number of these were described after his death by

Léon Fairmaire Léon Marc Herminie Fairmaire (29 June 1820 – 1 April 1906) was a French entomologist. A specialist in Coleoptera he assembled an immense collection comparable with that of Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean (1780-1845). This is in the Mus� ...

in his ''Notes sur les Coléopteres recueillis par Charles Coquerel a Madagascar et sur les côtes d'Afrique'' (1869). During his lifetime Coquerel wrote a number of articles and books, including an appendix on insects in Auguste Vinson's ''Voyage à Madagascar au couronnement de Radama II'' (1865). A number of animals are named after him, including the

Coquerel's coua Coquerel's coua (''Coua coquereli'') is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is Endemism, endemic to Madagascar. Its habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It was named in 1867 by the French naturalist Alfred Grandidier in hon ...

(''Coua coquereli'' Grandidier, 1867), the

Coquerel's sifaka Coquerel's sifaka (''Propithecus coquereli'') is a diurnal, medium-sized lemur of the sifaka genus '' Propithecus''. It is native to northwest Madagascar. Coquerel's sifaka was once considered to be a subspecies of Verreaux's sifaka, but was ...

(''Propithecus coquereli'' Milne-Edwards, 1867), and the

Coquerel's giant mouse lemur Coquerel's giant mouse lemur (''Mirza coquereli''), also known as Coquerel's dwarf lemur or the southern giant mouse lemur, is a small nocturnal lemur endemic to Madagascar. This species can be found in parts of the Madagascar dry deciduous fore ...

(''Mirza coquereli'' Grandidier, 1867), each of these species is endemic to

. Coquerel's insect collection is in the

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the ' (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a ' of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities. The main museum, with four galleries, is loc ...

in Paris.

References

*Lhoste, J. 1987 ''Les entomologistes français. 1750 - 1950''. INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Paris : 1-355 328 *Marseul, S. A. de 1889: Les Entomologistes et leurs Écrits. ''L'Abeille'' (5) 26(=2) 224-286 284-286, Schr.verz. *Papavero, N. 1971: ''Essays on the history of Neotropical dipterology''. São Paulo 194-195 *Viette, P. 1962: oquerel, J. C.''Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr.'' 131 8 {{DEFAULTSORT:Coquerel, Charles 1822 births 1867 deaths French entomologists 19th-century French botanists