Eugène de Pousargues

Who is Eugène de Pousargues?

Eugène de Pousargues was a French zoologist born in Saint-Omer.

From 1885 he was an assistant to Alphonse Milne-Edwards, and served as préparateur at the Laboratoire de Mammalogie of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. He died of septicaemia contacted when performing a dissection.

He was the author of a treatise on mammals from the French Congo titled "Étude sur les mammifères du Congo français", and with Milne-Edwards, he was co-author of "Le rhinopithèque de la vallée du Haut Mékong",. He also published scientific papers on Thorold's deer, the black-footed mongoose and on new gibbon and guenon species.

An African carnivore known as Pousargues' mongoose, Dologale dybowskii is named after him.