Charles Henri Frédéric Dumont de Sainte-Croix (27 April 1758 – 8 January 1830) was a French
zoologist.
A lawyer by trade, he was also an enthusiastic amateur
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 ...
.
[Stresemann, p. 117] Between 1817 and 1818, he described a number of
Javanese bird species discovered by
Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour;
[ he also contributed articles on ornithology to the ''Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles'', edited and published from 1816 to 1830 by F. G. Levrault.
Dumont de Sainte-Croix's daughter, Clémence married René-Primevère Lesson, a ]surgeon
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and noted French naturalist.
His younger brother, André Dumont was elected to the Convention
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during the French Revolution.
He was honoured in 1813, in the naming of '' Dumontia'', which is a genus of red algae
Red algae, or Rhodophyta (, ; ), are one of the oldest groups of eukaryotic algae. The Rhodophyta also comprises one of the largest phyla of algae, containing over 7,000 currently recognized species with taxonomic revisions ongoing. The majority ...
belonging to the family Dumontiaceae
Dumontiaceae is a red alga family in the order Gigartinales.
Species in the British Isles, includes '' Dumontia contorta'' (S.G.Gmelin) Ruprecht.Irvine, L.M..1983. ''Seaweeds of the British Isles''. Volume 1 Rhodophyta. Part 2A. British Museum.
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1758 births
1830 deaths
French ornithologists
French zoologists
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