André Menez (September 12, 1943, in

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– February 2, 2008, in

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) was a French biologist, who served as president of the

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from 2006 to 2008. As a biologist, he specialised in the

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snakes Snakes are elongated Limbless vertebrate, limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes (). Cladistically Squamata, squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping Scale (zoology), scales much like other members of ...

scorpions Scorpions are predatory arachnids of the Order (biology), order Scorpiones. They have eight legs and are easily recognized by a pair of Chela (organ), grasping pincers and a narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward cur ...

, and

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. He was knighted with the

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, and the National Ordre du Merit.

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1943 births 2008 deaths French biologists {{France-biologist-stub