Zéphirin Gerbe

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 (eutaxis) of the fifth secondary in birds.[1]

He was co-author of Ornithologie européenne, ou Catalogue analytique et raisonné des oiseaux observés en Europe with countryman Côme-Damien Degland (second edition, 1867).[2][3] He also published a French translation of Alfred Brehm's Illustrirtes Thierleben with the title La vie des animaux illustrée : description populaire du règne animal (4 volumes).[4]

Species he described include Gerbe's vole.[2]

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).[5]

References
  1. Sclater, P. L. (1890). "Remarks on the Fifth Cubital Remex of the Wing in the Carinatae". Ibis. 32 (1): 77–83. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.1890.tb06468.x. ISSN 0019-1019.
  2. Bo Beolens; Michael Watkins; Michael Grayson (2009). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. JHU Press. p. 151. ISBN 9780801895333.
  3. Biodiversity Library works by Côme-Damien Degland
  4. HathiTrust Digital Library La vie des animaux illustrée
  5. Zéphirin Gerbe (1810-1890) Data BNF - Bibliothèque nationale de France



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