Jean Roux (March 1876,

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– 1 December 1939) was a Swiss

herpetologist Herpetology (from Greek ἑρπετόν ''herpetón'', meaning "reptile" or "creeping animal") is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians ( gymnophiona)) and rep ...

. He studied at the

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, completing his doctoral thesis in 1899. His early research involved studies of protozoa, and following post-doctoral work in

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, he became a

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at the natural history museum in

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. Here, he performed analysis of herpetological specimens collected by

Fritz Müller Johann Friedrich Theodor Müller (31 March 1822 – 21 May 1897), better known as Fritz Müller, and also as Müller-Desterro, was a German biologist who emigrated to southern Brazil, where he lived in and near the German community of Blumenau, ...

, his predecessor at Basel.SSARHerps
(biography) In 1907-08, with

Hugo Merton Hugo Merton (18 November 1879 in Frankfurt am Main – 23 March 1940 in Edinburgh) was a German zoologist. He studied sciences at the University of Heidelberg. From October 1907 to August 1908, with herpetologist Jean Roux, he conducted scien ...

, he performed scientific research in the Aru and

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, and in 1911-12, with

Fritz Sarasin Fritz Sarasin, full name Karl Friedrich Sarasin (3 December 1859 – 23 March 1942) was a Swiss naturalist. He was a second cousin of Paul Sarasin.Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2009)''2,400 years of malacology, 6th ed.'', ...

, he visited New Caledonia and the

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. As a result of the latter expedition, he published with Sarasin a major work titled, ''Nova Caledonia. Forschungen in Neu-Caledonien und auf den Loyalty-Inseln. Recherches scientifiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie et aux iles Loyalty''. During his career, he was the author of 35 papers on herpetological subjects.

Eponymy

In 1913 he described "Roux's emo skink" ('' Emoia loyaltiensis'') and "Roux's giant gecko" (''

Rhacodactylus sarasinorum ''Correlophus sarasinorum'', also called commonly Roux's giant gecko, Sarasins' giant gecko, Sarasin's icgiant gecko (incorrectly), and the suras gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Diplodactylidae. The species is native to the southe ...

''). His name is also commemorated with a skink species called '' Lipinia rouxi'' (Hediger, 1934) and frog ''

Phrynobatrachus rouxi ''Phrynobatrachus rouxi'' is a species of frog in the family Phrynobatrachidae. It is found on western shore of Lake Victoria in Uganda and on Mount Kenya in Kenya; the extent of the former part of the range is uncertain and the latter requires c ...

''.

References

External links

Nova Caledonia. Forschungen in Neu-Caledonien und auf den Loyalty-Inseln. Recherches scientifiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie et aux iles Loyalty. A. Zoologie (1913)
A. Zoologie, Volume I.
Nova Caledonia. Forschungen in Neu-Caledonien und auf den Loyalty-Inseln. Recherches scientifiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie et aux iles Loyalty. A. Zoologie (1915)
A. Zoologie, Volume II. {{DEFAULTSORT:Roux, Jean 1876 births 1939 deaths Swiss herpetologists 20th-century Swiss zoologists Scientists from Geneva University of Geneva alumni