Jean-Théodore Cocteau (1798–1838) was a French herpetologist, who was associated with Duméril,

Cuvier Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (; 23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier was a major figure in nat ...

, and

Bibron Gabriel Bibron (20 October 1805 – 27 March 1848) was a French zoologist and herpetologist. He was born in Paris. The son of an employee of the Museum national d'histoire naturelle, he had a good foundation in natural history and was hir ...

, and corresponded with other workers in zoology around the world. Cocteau published a volume on

skink Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae, a family in the infraorder Scincomorpha. With more than 1,500 described species across 100 different taxonomic genera, the family Scincidae is one of the most diverse families of lizards. Ski ...

s, ''Etudes sur les Scincoïdes'', and named a number of new taxa. Cocteau is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of giant skink, ''

Chioninia coctei ''Chioninia coctei'' (also called Bibron's skink, the Cape Verde giant skink, Cocteau's skink, and ''lagarto'' in Portuguese) was a species of lizard that was at one time known to inhabit the islets of Ilhéu Branco, Branco and Ilhéu Raso, Raso ...

'', which is now extinct. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Cocteau", p. 56).

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