Jean Marius René Guibé was a French
naturalist, especially a
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 r ...
. He was born on 18 February 1910 in Paris and died on 4 May 1999 in
Caen
Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,[National Museum of Natural History
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.
The frogs ''
Boophis guibei
''Boophis guibei'', sometimes known as the warty bright-eyed frog, is a species of frog in the family Mantellidae
The Mantellidae are a family of the order Anura. These frogs are endemic to the islands of Madagascar and Mayotte.
Systemati ...
'', ''
Mantidactylus guibei'' and ''
Ptychadena guibei'', the chameleon ''
Calumma guibei
''Calumma guibei'', also known Common name, commonly as Guibé's chameleon, is a species of chameleon, a lizard in the Family (biology), family Chamaeleonidae. The species is Endemism, endemic to Madagascar.
Etymology
The Specific name (zoology ...
'', the gecko ''
Lygodactylus guibei'', and the snake ''
Oxyrhopus guibei
''Oxyrhopus guibei'' is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to South America. It is often called the false coral snake, Braz H, Manço DD (2011)"Natural nests of the false-coral snake ''Oxyrhopus guibei'' in s ...
'' were named in his honor.
[Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Guibé", pg. 111).]
The genus ''
Guibemantis'', which includes several species of frogs that are endemic to Madagascar, was also named in honor of Jean Guibé.
Biographical reference
*Bour, Roger (2006). "''Professeur Jean Guibe (1910–1999) : biographie et bibliographie''". ''Alytes'' 24: 133–146. (in French).
See also
*
:Taxa named by Jean Marius René Guibé
Bibliography
In French :
*Guibé J (1958). ''Les poissons''. (co-authored with Hans Hvass). Paris: Fernand Nathan. 111 pp.
*Guibé J (1959). ''Les plus beaux reptiles''. Paris: Larousse. 96 pp.
*Guibé J (1962). ''Les reptiles''. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 124 pp.
*Guibé J (1965). ''Les batraciens''. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 125 pp.
*Guibé J (1978). ''Les batraciens de Madagascar''. 222 pp.
References
French herpetologists
French taxonomists
1910 births
1999 deaths
20th-century French zoologists
National Museum of Natural History (France) people
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