Jean Louis Florent Polydore Roux (27 July 1792,

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−12 April 1833 ,

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and naturalist. Jean-Louis-Florent-Polydore Roux was, from his childhood, interested in natural history and had a large insect collection. He was taught by

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and

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at Académie des sciences de l'Institut de France in Paris and was in 1819 appointed curator of the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Marseille. He published ''Catalogue d’insectes de Provence'', 1820 a 2 volume work on birds ''Ornithologie provençale'', 1833 and ''Crustacés de la Méditerranée et de son littoral'', 1828–30, which including 45 coloured plates, which he himself had made. He also published on

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''Iconographie conchyliologique'', 1828.Marine painting was another of his occupations and a Roux family concern. Roux was a correspondent of Risso who in 1826 named the copepod ''Pandarus rouxi'' after him. In 1831 he joined

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, who was travelling for the Austrian government, on an excursion to Egypt and from there in 1832 to Bombay, where he later died of

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of Indian lizard, ''

Monilesaurus rouxii ''Monilesaurus rouxii'', commonly known as Roux's forest lizard, Roux's forest calotes, or the forest blood sucker, is a species of arboreal, diurnal, agamid lizard, which is endemic to hills of peninsular India. In July 2018, it was proposed ...

'', is named in his honour.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Roux, P.", p. 228). It is also likely that the specific name of the longstriped blenny (''Parablennius rouxi'') honours Roux.

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numérisé par le SCD de l'Université de Strasbourg ''Ornithologie provençale''. (in French). French zoologists French entomologists French ornithologists French malacologists French carcinologists 1833 deaths 1792 births {{zoologist-stub

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