Charles Payraudeau

Charles Payraudeau (1798-1865) was a French zoologist.

Benjamin Charles Marie Payraudeau studied with Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744–1829) at Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. He compiled faunal lists for Corsica between 1824 et 1825. On this expedition he discovered Audouin's Gull and a (now) subspecies desmarestii, of the European Shag. He described them in Deux espèces nouvelles d'oiseaux, appartenant aux genres Mouette et Cormoran published in Revue Annales de Sciences Naturelles (Paris, 1826, tome 8, p. 460-465). He also wrote Catalogue descriptif et méthodique des annélides et des mollusques de l'île de Corse (Paris, 1826). His entire ornithological collection is conserved as a museum in the Mairie of La Chaize-le-Vicomte in Vendée. It is named for him as Musée ornithologique Charles-Payraudeau

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Name	Payraudeau, Benjamin Charles Marie
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Short description	zoologist
Date of birth	1798
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Date of death	1865
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