Gabriel Bibron was a French

France

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 zoologist. He was born in Paris

Paris

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. Son of an employee of the Museum national d'histoire naturelle

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

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, he had a good foundation in natural history and was hired to collect vertebrates in Italy

Italy

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 and Sicily

Sicily

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. He classified a number of reptile

Reptile

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 species with André Marie Constant Duméril

André Marie Constant Duméril

André Marie Constant Duméril was a French zoologist. He was professor of anatomy at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle from 1801 to 1812, when he became professor of herpetology and ichthyology...

, whom he had met in 1832. Dumeril was interested mainly in the relations between genera, and he left to Bibron the task of describing the species. Bibron contracted tuberculosis and retired in 1845 to Saint-Alban-les-Eaux

Saint-Alban-les-Eaux

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where he died at the age of 42.