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 natural history, naturalist and zoology, zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuv ...

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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 hire ...

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

skink Skinks are a type of lizard belonging to the family (biology), family Scincidae, a family in the Taxonomic rank, infraorder Scincomorpha. With more than 1,500 described species across 100 different taxonomic genera, the family Scincidae is one o ...

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 The Cape Verde giant skink (''Chioninia coctei''), also called Bibron's skink, Cocteau's skink, and ''lagarto'' in Cape Verdean Portuguese, is a recently extinct species of large lizard (skink) that was endemic to some of the Barlavento Islands o ...

'', 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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