Chevalier Jean Baptiste Vérany (1800, in

Nice Nice ( ; ) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly one million pharmacist A pharmacist, also known as a chemist in English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English, is a healthcare professional who is knowledgeable about preparation, mechanism of action, clinical usage and legislation of medications in ...

and

naturalist Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. A person who studies natural history is cal ...

who specialised in the study of

cephalopod A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan Taxonomic rank, class Cephalopoda (Greek language, Greek plural , ; "head-feet") such as a squid, octopus, cuttlefish, or nautilus. These exclusively marine animals are characterized by bilateral symm ...

s. In 1846, with Jean-Baptiste Barla (1817–1896), he founded the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Nice. Vérany discovered and described many species.

André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac Baron André Étienne Justin Pascal Joseph François d'Audebert de Férussac (30 December 1786 – 21 January 1836) was a French naturalist best known for his studies of molluscs. (Two of his given names are sometimes spelt Just or Juste instead o ...

named '' Chiroteuthis veranyi'' for him. File:Chiroteuthis veranyi Haeckel.jpg, '' Chiroteuthis veranii'' File:Chromolithographie de Poulpe (Octopus Macropus) en Méditerranée.jpg, '' Callistoctopus macropus''

Works

Partial list: * 1842 – Illustrations. ''Isis von Oken'', pp. 252–253. * 1844 – Description de deux genres nouveaux de mollusques nudibranches. ''Revue Zoologique par la Societe Cuvierienne'', pp. 302–303. * 1845 – Janus spinolae. ''Guerin Magazin de Zoologie'', series 2, 7:121-122, pl. 136. * 1846 – Descrizione di Genova e del Genovesato 1(2): ''Regno Animale Molluschi'', pp. 90–110, pls. 2-4. * 1846 – Catalogo degli animali invertebrati marini del golfo di Genova e Nizza. ''Est. dulla Guida di Genova'' 3: 1-30 * 1849 – Description d'un nouveau genre et d'une nouvelle espece de Mollusque. ''Revue et Magazin de Zoologie pure et appliquee'' (2), 1:593-594, pl. 17. * 1850 – Lomanotus, eine neue Gattung und Art Molluske. ''Tagsberichte uber die Fortschritte der Natur- und Heilkunde, Abth. fur zoologie und palaeontologie'' 1(16):89-96. * 1853 – Catalogue des Mollusques cephalopodes, pteropodes, Gasteropodes nudibranches, etc. des environs de Nice. ''Journal de Conchyliologie'' 4:375-392. * 1862 – Zoologie des Alpes-Maritimes. Statistique générale du département par J. Roux. * 1862 – Zoologie des Alpes-Maritimes ou catalogue des animaux observes dans la département, Nice, Imprimerie et Librairie Ch. Cauvin, pp. 1–102. Nudibranchia pp. 86–90. * 1851 – ''Céphalopodes de la Méditerranée''. Mollusques Méditerranéens Observes, Decrits, Figures et Chromolithographies a apres le vivant ouvrage dedii ASM le roi Charles Albert, I:1-132. * 1865 – Notice sur les Mollusques Nudibranches et description des six nouvelles Eolides de la Mediterranee. ''Annales de la Societe des Lettres, Sciences et Arts des Alpes-Maritimes'' 1:241-252.

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Images from the classic monograph by Jean-Baptiste Vernay

Article on Vérany's illustrations of cephalopods
{{DEFAULTSORT:Verany, Jean Baptiste French zoologists French pharmacists 1800 births 1865 deaths Teuthologists

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