Charles Coquerel

Charles Coquerel (1822–1867) was a French navy surgeon, algologist, and entomologist.

Coquerel collected insects in Madagascar and neighbouring islands. A number of these were described after his death by Léon Fairmaire in his Notes sur les Coléopteres recueillis par Charles Coquerel a Madagascar et sur les côtes d'Afrique (1869). During his lifetime Coquerel wrote a number of articles and books, including an appendix on insects in Auguste Vinson's Voyage à Madagascar au couronnement de Radama II (1865).

A number of animals are named after him, including the Coquerel's Coua Coua coquereli (Grandidier, 1867), the Coquerel's Sifaka Propithecus coquereli (Milne-Edwards, 1867), and the Coquerel's Giant Mouse Lemur Mirza coquereli (Grandidier, 1867), each of these species endemic to Madagascar. Coquerel's insect collection is in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris.

The standard author abbreviation Coquerel is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

References

1. ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do. 

• Lhoste, J. 1987 Les entomologistes français. 1750 - 1950. INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique) , Paris : 1-355 328
• Marseul, S. A. de 1889: Les Entomologistes et leurs Écrits. L'Abeille (5) 26(=2) 224-286 284-286, Schr.verz.
• Papavero, N. 1971: Essays on the history of Neotropical dipterology. São Paulo 194-195
• Viette, P. 1962: [Coquerel, J. C.] Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 131 8

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Name	Coquerel, Charles
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Date of birth	1822
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Date of death	1867
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