Jean-Joseph Zéphirin Gerbe (21 December 1810 in
Bras – 26 June 1890 in Bras) was a French naturalist. He was the first to discover the pattern of wing taxis, the absence (diastataxis) or presence (eutaxy) of the fifth secondary in birds.
He was co-author of ''Ornithologie européenne, ou Catalogue analytique et raisonné des oiseaux observés en Europe'' with countryman
Côme-Damien Degland Côme-Damien Degland (6 July 1787 – 1 January 1856, Lille) was a French physician and zoologist.
Biography
Born in Armentières, Degland lived in Lille for most of his life, where he was the chief of the Hôpital Saint-Sauveur until his death. H ...
(second edition, 1867).
He also published a French translation of
Alfred Brehm
Alfred Edmund Brehm (; 2 February 1829 – 11 November 1884) was a German zoologist and writer. His multi-volume book '' Brehms Tierleben'', which he co-authored with Eduard Pechuël-Loesche, Wilhelm Haacke, and Richard Schmidtlein, becam ...
's ''
Illustrirtes Thierleben'' with the title ''La vie des animaux illustrée : description populaire du règne animal'' (4 volumes).
Species he described include
Gerbe's vole.
Selected works
* ''Mélanges zoologiques. Notices et observations sur quelques vertébrés nouveaux pour la faune de la Provence'', (1852).
* ''Ornithologie européenne, ou Catalogue descriptif, analytique et raisonné des oiseaux observés en Europe''; with C. D. Degland, (1867).
* ''Les Oiseaux décrits et figurés d'après la classification de Georges Cuvier, mise au courant des progrès de la science'', (1869).
* ''Étude comparative de quelques caractères du Campagnol ibérien et du Campagnol incertain'', (1879).
Zéphirin Gerbe (1810-1890)
Data BNF - Bibliothèque nationale de France
References
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1810 births
1890 deaths
French zoologists
French ornithologists
People from Var (department)
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