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auguste duméril 12 november 1870 paris paris french herpetology ichthyology zoology muséum national d'histoire naturelle french academy of sciences 30 november 1812 duméril auguste 1812-1870 . png auguste duméril
 auguste duméril university of paris
auguste duméril

auguste henri andré duméril -lrb- 30 november 1812 -- 12 november 1870 -rrb- was a french zoologist .
his father , andré marie constant duméril -lrb- 1774-1860 -rrb- , was also a zoologist .
in 1869 he was elected as a member of the académie des sciences .
duméril studied at the university of paris , and in 1844 became an associate professor of comparative physiology at the university .
from 1857 , he was a professor of herpetology and ichthyology at the muséum national d'histoire naturelle in paris .
in 1851 , with his father , he published `` catalogue méthodique de la collection des reptiles '' .
with zoologist marie firmin bocourt -lrb- 1819 -- 1904 -rrb- , he collaborated on a project called `` mission scientifique au mexique et dans l'amérique centrale '' , a publication that was the result of bocourt 's scientific expedition to mexico and central america from 1864 to 1866 .
the section on reptiles is considered to be dumeril 's best written effort in the field of herpetology .
duméril died in 1870 during the siege of paris , and `` mission scientifique au mexique et dans l'amérique centrale '' was continued by bocourt , léon vaillant -lrb- 1834 -- 1914 -rrb- and other scientists .
as part of the `` collection des suites à buffon '' , he issued a two-volume ichthyological study titled `` histoire naturelle des poissons , ou ichtyologie générale '' -lrb- 1865 , 1870 -rrb- , research that complemented the works of georges cuvier -lrb- 1769 -- 1832 -rrb- and achille valenciennes -lrb- 1794 -- 1865 -rrb- by describing species not covered by the two famous naturalists .
duméril also conducted significant research involving the axolotl -lrb- `` ambystoma mexicanum '' -rrb- .
