Charles Antoine Domergue (5 January 1914 in Besançon, France – 31 December 2008 in

Antananarivo Antananarivo ( French: ''Tananarive'', ), also known by its colonial shorthand form Tana, is the capital and largest city of Madagascar. The administrative area of the city, known as Antananarivo-Renivohitra ("Antananarivo-Mother Hill" or "An ...

) was a French naturalist,

ornithologist Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...

herpetologist Herpetology (from Greek ἑρπετόν ''herpetón'', meaning "reptile" or "creeping animal") is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (gymnophiona)) and rept ...

, spelunker and

geologist A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid, liquid, and gaseous matter that constitutes Earth and other terrestrial planets, as well as the processes that shape them. Geologists usually study geology, earth science, or geophysics, althou ...

who spent much of his life in

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. He also dealt with the effects of pollution. Charles_Domergue

Eponyms

Domergue is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of snake, ''

Madatyphlops domerguei ''Madatyphlops domerguei'' is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae. McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré TA (1999). ''Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1.'' Washington, District of Columbia. Herpetol ...

'', and a frog, '' Blommersia domerguei'', both of which are

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to Madagascar.

Selected publications

*1942: ''Les serpents de Franche-Comté : Description, habitat, reproduction, venin, chasse, vie en captivité, légendes suivis d'une brève étude des lézards'' (). édition Imprimerie de l'Est (Besançon) *1962: ''Un serpent venimeux à Madagascar : Madagascarophis colubrina.'' Bull. Acad. malg. *1963: ''Observation sur les hémipénis des ophidiens et sauriens de Madagascar.'' Bull. Acad. malg., 21–23. *1967: ''Clé simplifiée pour la détermination sur le terrain des serpents communs de Madagascar.'' Bull. Acad. malg. *1970: ''Notes sur les Serpents de la Région Malgache. Lycodryas maculatus (Günther, 1858), espèce des Comores. Description de deux femelles.'' Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. Paris, 42 : 449–451. *1972–1973: ''II. Étude de trois Serpents malgaches : Liopholidophis lateralis (D. & B.), L. stumpffi (Boettger) et L. thieli n. sp.'' Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat. Paris, 77 : 1397–1412. *1973: ''Notes sur les Caméléons de Madagascar''. *1983: ''La forêt du PK 32 au nord de Tuléar. Note préliminaire en vue de sa mise en réserve.'' Bull. Acad. malg., 61 : 105–114 *1994: ''Nouvelles espèces du complexe Stenophis et Lycodrias.'' Bull. Acad. malg. 21 avril. *1994: ''Notes sur les serpents de la région malgache. X. Boïginae nouveaux des genres Stenophis et Lycodrias.'' Bull. Acad. malg.

Decorations

* ''Croix de guerre'' 1939–1945 Charles_Domergue_-_Grande_Croix

*1946: ''

Médaille de la Résistance The Resistance Medal (french: Médaille de la Résistance) was a decoration bestowed by the French Committee of National Liberation, based in the United Kingdom, during World War II. It was established by a decree of General Charles de Gaulle on 9 ...

'' *1950: '' Nischan-el-Iftikhar-Orden'' *July 14, 1967:

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon, ...

Sources

*Domergue, Sylvie (2008)
"Travelling Through Time - ''Voyage dans le temps'': Charles A. Domergue".
''Madagascar Conservation & Development'' 3 (1): 78–83. (in English and French).

References

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