Léon Bertin (8 April 1896,

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– 5 February 1956, Saint-Amand-de-Vendôme) was a French

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. He was born in the

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, and died in the

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Biography

From 1914, Bertin studied at the . He was granted his in 1917, and his in 1920. In 1925, he received his doctorate with a thesis entitled ("Bionomic, biometric and systematic research on

stickleback The sticklebacks are a family of ray-finned fishes, the Gasterosteidae which have a Holarctic distribution in fresh, brackish and marine waters. They were thought to be related to the pipefish and seahorses but are now thought to be more close ...

s (Gasterosteidae)". Bertin studied under Alfred Lacroix (1863 – 1948) in the Geology Laboratories of the

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in Paris, and studied

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s under Louis Eugène Bouvier (1856 – 1944). In 1938, after working as a lab assistant at the Faculty of Science, he moved to the

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Laboratory of the Museum, working for Louis Roule (1861 – 1942), who was followed by

Jacques Pellegrin Jacques Pellegrin (12 June 1873 – 12 August 1944) was a French zoology, zoologist. Biography Pellegrin was born in Paris on 12 June 1873. He worked under zoologist Léon Vaillant (chair of reptiles and fishes) at the ''Muséum national d'hi ...

(1873 – 1944) on his retirement. In 1949 he was President of the French Zoological Society.

Publications

Bertin is most remembered as the author of the 1921 work ("Atlas of Marine Fish, Detailing their Habits and Mysteries, The Life Cycle and Biology of Sticklebacks"). He specialised in deepwater fauna. Other works include: * New editions 1980 and 1998. * Reissued 1930. * New edition 1979. * New edition 1979. * * New edition 1951. * New edition 1946. * * * * * * * *

Taxon described by him

*See :Taxa named by Léon Bertin

Taxon named in his honor

The thread eel '' Serrivomer bertini'' is named after him.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bertin, Leon 1896 births 1954 deaths École Normale Supérieure alumni French ichthyologists 20th-century French zoologists