François Liénard de la Mivoye (born 29 July 1782,

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, died 6 November 1862, Paris) was a

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naturalist,

ichthyologist Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish ( Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of Octobe ...

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and mariner. He lived most of his life in Mauritius and, in 1829, was a founder member and treasurer of the ''société d'histoire natural locale'' alongside

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and

Julien Desjardins Julien François Desjardins (27 July 1799, Centre de Flacq – 18 April 1840, Paris) was a French zoologist, the son of Julien Jouan Desjardins (1766–1853) and Henriette Émilie Marcotte. He married Julie Renée Maréchal, his first cousin by his ...

. In 1841 this became the ''Société Royale des arts et des Sciences de l'île Maurice''. The Society regularly sent fish specimens to Georges Cuvier in Paris and these were described in his 22 volume ''Histoire naturelle des poissons'', this was completed after Cuvier’s death by

Achille Valenciennes Achille Valenciennes (9 August 1794 – 13 April 1865) was a French zoologist. Valenciennes was born in Paris, and studied under Georges Cuvier. His study of parasitic worms in humans made an important contribution to the study of parasitology. ...

. Liénard was responsible for describing a number of species including the now extinct

Rodrigues giant day gecko The Rodrigues giant day gecko (''Phelsuma gigas'') is an extinct species of day gecko. It lived on the island of Rodrigues and surrounding islands and typically dwelt on trees. The Rodrigues giant day gecko fed on insects and nectar, and, unlike m ...

(''Phesulma gigas''), Liénard being the last known person to see this species. Liénard is commemorated in the

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of the predatory sea snail ''

Conus lienardi ''Conus lienardi'' or Lienard's cone is a species of sophisticated predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails, cone shells or cones. Like all species within the genus ''Conus'', these snails are pred ...

''. He is also commemorated in a white marble

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which sits in the Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden in Mauritius. He married Marie Françoise Chapon in

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on 19 August 1807, and the couple had a daughter Elizé Liénard on 2 September 1808 and a son Jules Victor Liénard on 10 April 1811, both born in Port Louis.

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