Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon (7 May 1804 – 15 April 1863) was a French naturalist and doctor. Moquin-Tandon was professor of

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Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of

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and director of the

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s at

Toulouse Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Par ...

. In 1850, he was sent by the French government to

Corsica Corsica ( , Upper , Southern ; it, Corsica; ; french: Corse ; lij, Còrsega; sc, Còssiga) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of ...

to study the island's flora. In 1853, he moved to Paris, later becoming director of the Jardin des Plantes and the

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. His books included ''L'Histoire Naturelle des Iles Canaries'' (1835–44), co-authored with

Philip Barker Webb Philip Barker Webb (10 July 1793 – 31 August 1854) was an English botanist. Life Webb was born to a wealthy, aristocratic family; his father was the lord of the manors of Witley and Milford, Surrey, Milford, in Surrey, England. Webb was e ...

and

Sabin Berthelot Sabin Berthelot (4 April 1794 – 10 November 1880) was a French naturalist and ethnologist. He was resident on the Canary Islands for part of his life, and co-authored ''L'Histoire Naturelle des Îles Canaries'' (1835–50) with Philip Barker We ...

. One of his specialities was the

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Amaranthaceae Amaranthaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the amaranth family, in reference to its type genus ''Amaranthus''. It includes the former goosefoot family Chenopodiaceae and contains about 165 genera and 2,040 species, making it ...

(The

Amaranth ''Amaranthus'' is a cosmopolitan genus of annual or short-lived perennial plants collectively known as amaranths. Some amaranth species are cultivated as leaf vegetables, pseudocereals, and ornamental plants. Catkin-like cymes of densely pack ...

family). Several genera of plants have been named in his honour, including in 1838,

DC. Augustin Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle (, , ; 4 February 17789 September 1841) was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched de Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at a herbarium. Within a couple of years de Candolle ...

published ''

Moquinia ''Moquinia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the Moquinieae, ''Moquinia'' tribe within the Asteraceae, sunflower family.

'', a

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of flowering plants from Brazil, in the ''Moquinia'' tribe within the sunflower family. Then in 1954, Simone Balle published ''

Moquiniella ''Moquiniella'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Loranthaceae. It only contains one known species, ''Moquiniella rubra'' (A.Spreng.) Balle It is native to Namibia and the Cape Provinces (region in South Africa). T ...

'' a genus of

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s from Africa, belonging to the family

Loranthaceae Loranthaceae, commonly known as the showy mistletoes, is a family of flowering plants. It consists of about 75 genera and 1,000 species of woody plants, many of them hemiparasites. The three terrestrial species are ''Nuytsia floribunda'' (the W ...

. Lastly in 2013, botanists (Cabrera) G.Sancho published ''

Moquiniastrum ''Moquiniastrum'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. Its native range is Venezuelan Antilles to Southern Tropical America. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela and Venezuelan Ant ...

'', a genus of

s from South America, belonging to the family

Asteraceae The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...

Bibliography

* Moquin-Tandon A. (1855–1856). ''Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de France, contenant des études générales sur leur anatomie et leur physiologie et la description particulière des genres, des espèces et des variétés''. (4-5), 368 pp., J.-B. Baillière, Paris. *
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* French naturalists 1804 births 1863 deaths Members of the French Academy of Sciences {{France-botanist-stub