Émile Oustalet

Jean-Frédéric Émile Oustalet (24 August 1844 23 October 1905 Saint-Cast) was a French zoologist.[1]

Reconstructing the dodo in the studio of Professor Oustalet, 1903

Oustalet was born at Montbéliard, in the department of Doubs. He studied at the Ecole des Hautes-Etudes and his first scientific work was on the respiratory organs of dragonfly larvae. He was employed at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, where he succeeded Jules Verreaux as assistant-naturalist in 1873. In 1900 he succeeded Alphonse Milne-Edwards as Professor of Mammalogy.[1]

He co-authored Les Oiseaux de la Chine (1877) with Armand David, and also wrote Les Oiseaux du Cambodge (1899).[1]

Oustalet was president of the third International Ornithological Congress held in Paris in 1900.

A species of Malagasy chameleon, Furcifer oustaleti, was named in his honor by François Mocquard in 1894.[2]

Selected writings

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References

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  1. 1 2 3 Hellmayr CE (1906). "Emile Oustalet [obituary]". Ornithologische Monatsberichte 14 (4): 57-59. Scan.
  2. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ("Oustalet", p. 198).

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