Jean-Joseph Zéphirin Gerbe (21 December 1810 in
Bras – 26 June 1890 in Bras) was a French naturalist. He was the first to discover the pattern of wing taxis, the absence (diastataxis) or presence (eutaxy) of the fifth secondary in birds.
He was co-author of ''Ornithologie européenne, ou Catalogue analytique et raisonné des oiseaux observés en Europe'' with countryman
Côme-Damien Degland (second edition, 1867).
He also published a French translation of
Alfred Brehm's ''
Illustrirtes Thierleben'' with the title ''La vie des animaux illustrée : description populaire du règne animal'' (4 volumes).
Species he described include
Gerbe's vole
Gerbe's vole (''Microtus gerbii'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found in France and Spain
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Selected works
* ''Mélanges zoologiques. Notices et observations sur quelques vertébrés nouveaux pour la faune de la Provence'', (1852).
* ''Ornithologie européenne, ou Catalogue descriptif, analytique et raisonné des oiseaux observés en Europe''; with C. D. Degland, (1867).
* ''Les Oiseaux décrits et figurés d'après la classification de Georges Cuvier, mise au courant des progrès de la science'', (1869).
* ''Étude comparative de quelques caractères du Campagnol ibérien et du Campagnol incertain'', (1879).
Zéphirin Gerbe (1810-1890)
Data BNF - Bibliothèque nationale de France
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1810 births
1890 deaths
French zoologists
French ornithologists
People from Var (department)
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