Gilbert Tirant (12 June 1848,
Lyon
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– 2 October 1899, Lyon) was a French government official and naturalist.
He studied medicine at Lyon, and following graduation in 1873 he traveled to
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, publishing "''Voyage dans la régence de Tunis''" (1874; co-author Fleury Rebatel) as a result. Afterwards he was stationed in
French Indochina
French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China),; vi, Đông Dương thuộc Pháp, , lit. 'East Ocean under French Control; km, ឥណ្ឌូចិនបារាំង, ; th, อินโดจีนฝรั่งเศส, ...
, where he spent many years as an administrator in
Cochinchina
Cochinchina or Cochin-China (, ; vi, Đàng Trong (17th century - 18th century, Việt Nam (1802-1831), Đại Nam (1831-1862), Nam Kỳ (1862-1945); km, កូសាំងស៊ីន, Kosăngsin; french: Cochinchine; ) is a historical exony ...
,
Annam and
Tonkin
Tonkin, also spelled ''Tongkin'', ''Tonquin'' or ''Tongking'', is an exonym referring to the northern region of Vietnam. During the 17th and 18th centuries, this term referred to the domain ''Đàng Ngoài'' under Trịnh lords' control, includi ...
. In 1894 he was appointed director of political affairs and protectorates in the ''Gouvernement général de l’Indochine''. In 1898 he returned to France, where he died the following year of
malaria
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.
[Tirant, Gilbert]
Sociétés savantes de France
He supplied the museum in Lyon with a rich collection of birds, fish and other animals from Cochinchina. He also described several new species of fish whose types are kept in the museum.
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Selected works
* ''Les Oiseaux de la Basse-Cochinchine'', 1879 – Fish of Lower Conchinchina.
* ''Mémoire sur les poissons de la rivière de Hué'', 1883 – Memoire on fish from the river at Hué.
* ''Note sur quelques espèces de poissons des montagnes de Samrong-Tong, Cambodge'', 1884 – On some species of fish from the mountains of Samraong Tong, Cambodia
Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailand t ...
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* ''Les bois odoriférants de la Cochinchine'', 1885 – On aromatic wood of Cochinchina.
* ''Notes sur les reptiles et les batraciens de la Cochinchine'', 1885 – On reptiles and amphibians of Cochinchina.
* ''Notes sur les poissons de la Basse-Cochinchine et du Cambodge'', 1885 – Fish of lower Cochinchina and Cambodia.
Ichthyologic species described by Tirant
* ''Carinotetraodon lorteti
Somphong's puffer, redeye puffer or crested puffer (''Carinotetraodon lorteti'') is a small freshwater blowfish found in mainlands Southeast Asia such as Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam. This fish has been collected in the past for the aquarium trade. ...
'' (1885)
* '' Chanodichthys flavipinnis'' (1883)
* ''Garra cambodgiensis
The Cambodian logsucker (''Garra cambodgiensis''), also known as stonelapping minnow or false Siamese algae eater, is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus ''Garra''. It lives in Southeast Asia.
Description
The Cambodian logsucker has a broa ...
'' (1883); Cambodian logsucker.
* '' Gyrinocheilus aymonieri'' (1883); Siamese algae-eater
* '' Puntius aurotaeniatus'' (1885)
* '' Rasbora aurotaenia'' (1885); pale rasbora.
* '' Rhodeus rheinardti'' (1883)
* ''Tetraodon biocellatus
''Dichotomyctere ocellatus'' ( syn. ''Tetraodon biocellatus''), commonly the figure 8 puffer or eyespot puffer, is a pufferfish found in freshwater in Southeast Asia. It is known from the lower reaches of the Mekong (Cambodia), the Peninsular ...
'' (1885); figure 8 puffer.
* ''Yasuhikotakia morleti
The skunk loach, skunk botia or Hora's loach (''Yasuhikotakia morleti''; syn. ''Botia morleti'', ''Botia horae'') is a species of botiid loach found in the Mekong River basin in Indochina, as well as the Chao Phraya and Mae Klong basins in Thaila ...
'' (1885); skunk loach.Taxon author: Tirant, 1885
ITIS
See also
*
:Taxa named by Gilbert Tirant
References
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1848 births
1898 deaths
Civil servants from Lyon
French naturalists
French ichthyologists
Scientists from Lyon