Eugène de Pousargues (21 October 1859 – 24 January 1901) was a French
zoologist born in
Saint-Omer (
Pas-de-Calais
Pas-de-Calais (, " strait of Calais"; pcd, Pas-Calés; also nl, Nauw van Kales) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments ...
).
From 1885 he was an assistant to
Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835–1900), and served as préparateur at the ''Laboratoire de Mammalogie'' of the
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in
Paris. He died of
septicaemia contracted when performing a dissection.
He was the author of a treatise on mammals from the
French Congo titled "''Étude sur les mammifères du Congo français''" (1897), and with Milne-Edwards, he was co-author of "''Le rhinopithèque de la vallée du Haut Mékong (rhinopithecus bieti, A. M.-E.)''", (The
snub-nosed monkey from the valley of the
Upper Mekong River
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; 1898). He also published scientific papers on
Thorold's deer, the
black-footed mongoose and on new
gibbon
Gibbons () are apes in the family Hylobatidae (). The family historically contained one genus, but now is split into four extant genera and 20 species. Gibbons live in subtropical and tropical rainforest from eastern Bangladesh to Northeast India ...
and
guenon species.
An African carnivore known as
Pousargues's mongoose, ''Dologale dybowskii'' (
Pousargues, 1893), is named after him.
IUCN Red List, Dologale dybowskii (Pousargues's Mongoose, Savanna Mongoose)
References
* ''Biographical information of this article is based on a translation of an equivalent article at the French Wikipedia'', source listed as: Philip and Edward R. Jaussaud Brygoo (2004). ''Du Jardin au Muséum en 516 biographies''. Muséum national d’histoire naturelle de Paris : 630 p.
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French zoologists
People from Saint-Omer
1901 deaths
1859 births
Deaths from sepsis