Florent Prévost
Deceased Person
– 1870
Who was Florent Prévost?
Florent Prévost was a French naturalist and illustrator.
Prévost was assistant naturalist at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. He was the author of various zoological works, including Les Pigeons par Madame Knip and, with C. L. Lemaire, Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux d'Europe. He illustrated works of Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Charles Lucien Bonaparte and Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon.
He worked on the birds from the voyage of La Venus with Marc Athanese Parfait Oeillet Des Murs, and on the birds and mammals brought back from the French expedition to Abyssinia between 1839 to 1843.
Gerard's water snake, Gerarda prevostiana is named after him.
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