Fernand Lataste (1847 - 1934) was a French zoologist and herpetologist born in Cadillac, Gironde.
From 1880 to 1884 he collected reptiles and amphibians in North Africa ( Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco), publishing "Les missions scientifiques de Fernand Lataste en Afrique noire et au Maghreb". In 1885 he released "Étude de la faune des vertébrés de Barbarie", a standard work on animals of North Africa. [1] Other publications by Lataste are:
- Essai d'une faune herpétologique de la Gironde, 1876 - Essay on the herpetological fauna of Gironde.
- Étude sur le discoglosse, 1879 - Study of Discoglossus.
- Notes prises au jour le jour sur différentes espèces de l'ordre des rongeurs observées en captivité, 1886. - Notes taken on a daily basis involving different species of rodents observed in captivity.
- Liste de mollusques du Chili : lettre à M. Fernand Lataste, 1896 - List of mollusks native to Chile. [2]
In 1876 he was a founding member of the Société zoologique de France. [3]
Taxonomy
Lataste was the taxonomic author of numerous genera and species, as an example, in 1880 he described the fat-tailed gerbil ( Pachyuromys duprasi ).
Along with Lataste's viper ( Vipera latastei ), [4] a viper from Spain, Portugal and North Africa, his name is associated with the following:
- Lataste's gerbil (Gerbillus latastei );
- Lataste's gundi, often referred to as the Mzab gundi, (Massoutiera mzabi ); [1] [5]
- Lataste's snake skink (Ophiomorus latastii ); [4]
- Lataste's lizard (Timon pater ); [4]
- Latastia, a genus of lacertid lizards;
- Lataste's frog (Rana latastei) which inhabits the plains of Northern Italy, the southern tip of Switzerland, Slovenia and Croatia.
References
External links
- Fernand Lataste's "Bibliography of Scientific Publications", c. 1880-1890 from the Smithsonian Institution Archives
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