Jean-Jacques Dussumier
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Jean-Jacques Dussumier was a French voyager and merchant from Bordeaux
. He is known as a collector of zoological species from South Eastern Asia and regions around the Indian Ocean between 1816 and 1840. These collections were later studied and classified by French zoologists such as Georges Cuvier
, Achille Valenciennes
, among others. Dussumier's name was lent to numerous species, and an entire genus
of herring
s is called Dussumieria
. The following is a list of zoological species associated with Dussumier:
Bordeaux
Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...
. He is known as a collector of zoological species from South Eastern Asia and regions around the Indian Ocean between 1816 and 1840. These collections were later studied and classified by French zoologists such as Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
Georges Chrétien Léopold Dagobert Cuvier or Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier , known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist...
, Achille Valenciennes
Achille Valenciennes
Achille Valenciennes was a French zoologist.Valenciennes was born in Paris, and studied under Georges Cuvier. Valenciennes' study of parasitic worms in humans made an important contribution to the study of parasitology...
, among others. Dussumier's name was lent to numerous species, and an entire genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of herring
Herring
Herring is an oily fish of the genus Clupea, found in the shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and the North Atlantic oceans, including the Baltic Sea. Three species of Clupea are recognized. The main taxa, the Atlantic herring and the Pacific herring may each be divided into subspecies...
s is called Dussumieria
Dussumeria
Dussumieria, the rainbow sardines, is a genus of fishes in the herring family Clupeidae.- Species :* Dussumieria acuta Valenciennes, 1847 * Dussumieria elopsoides Bleeker, 1849...
. The following is a list of zoological species associated with Dussumier:
- AcanthurusAcanthurusAcanthurus is the type genus of the family Acanthuridae. Approximately half of all members of the family are members of the genus Acanthurus. They are found in tropical oceans, especially near coral reefs, with most species in the Indo-Pacific, but a few are found in the Atlantic Ocean...
dussumieri - Dussumier's Surgeonfish; aka Dussumieri tang - Accipiter badius dussumieri - subspecies of Indian shikraShikraThe Shikra is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae found widely distributed in Asia and Africa where it is also called the Little Banded Goshawk. The African forms may represent a separate species but have usually been considered as subspecies of the Shikra...
- AmbassisAmbassisAmbassis is a genus of fish in the Ambassidae family. The genus was created by French naturalist Georges Cuvier, and is Greek for 'climbing up'.It contains the following species:* Agassiz's olive glassfish, Ambassis agassizii Steindachner, 1867....
dussumieri - Malabar glassy perchlet - AnisakisAnisakisAnisakis is a genus of parasitic nematodes, which have a life cycle involving fish and marine mammals. They are infective to humans and cause anisakiasis...
dussumieri - a marine parasite - AriusArius (genus)Arius is a genus of catfishes of the family Ariidae. The genus Arius is distributed in brackish and fresh waters of Eastern Africa and south to southeast Asia....
dussumieri - Blacktip Sea Catfish - AspidontusAspidontusAspidontus is a genus of combtooth blennies found in the Pacific and Indian oceans.-Species:* Lance blenny, Aspidontus dussumieri * False cleanerfish Aspidontus taeniatus...
dussumieri - Lance blenny - Austrobatrachus dussumieri - Flat toadfish
- Boleophthalmus dussumieri - a species of mudskipperMudskipperMudskippers are members of the subfamily Oxudercinae , within the family Gobiidae . They are completely amphibious fish, fish that can use their pectoral fins to walk on land...
in India - Brama dussumieri - Lesser bream
- CaligusCaligusCaligus is a genus of sea lice in the family Caligidae. The species are parasites of marine fishes and could be vectors of viruses....
dussumieri - a marine parasite - Carcharhinus dussumieri - Whitecheek sharkWhitecheek sharkThe whitecheek shark, Carcharhinus dussumieri, is a requiem shark of the family Carcharhinidae, found in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean between latitudes 34° N and 25° S. Its length is up to about 1.2 m....
- CasareaCasareaThe Round Island Boa , also known as the Round Island Keel-scaled Boa, is a snake in the Bolyeriidae family, in the monotypic genus Casarea. It is also the only extant member of the family Bolyeriidae, and is endemic to Round Island, Mauritius...
dussumieri — Round Island Keel-scaled Boa - CinnyrisCinnyrisCinnyris is a genus of sunbirds. Its members are sometimes included in NectariniaThe sunbirds are a group of very small Old World passerine birds which feed largely on nectar, although they will also take insects, especially when feeding young. Flight is fast and direct on their short wings...
dussumieri - Seychelles SunbirdSeychelles SunbirdThe Seychelles Sunbird is a small passerine from the family of sunbirds. It is named after the French explorer Jean-Jacques Dussumier. It is native to the Seychelles, where it is known as kolibri in Seychellois Creole. This bird is variously placed in the Cinnyris genus.- Description :It can reach... - ClariasClariasClarias is a genus of catfishes of the family Clariidae, the airbreathing catfishes. The name is derived from the Greek chlaros, which means lively, in reference to the ability of the fish to live for a long time out of water....
dussumieri - a species of air-breathing catfishCatfishCatfishes are a diverse group of ray-finned fish. Named for their prominent barbels, which resemble a cat's whiskers, catfish range in size and behavior from the heaviest and longest, the Mekong giant catfish from Southeast Asia and the second longest, the wels catfish of Eurasia, to detritivores... - CoiliaCoiliaCoilia, the Grenadier anchovies, is a genus of anchovies. It currently contains 13 species.-Species:* Coilia borneensis Bleeker, 1852...
dussumieri - Goldspotted grenadier anchovyAnchovyAnchovies are a family of small, common salt-water forage fish. There are 144 species in 17 genera, found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. Anchovies are usually classified as an oily fish.-Description:... - DipsochelysDipsochelysDipsochelys is a genus of giant tortoise restricted to Madagascar and the Seychelles islands, containing six species:* †Dipsochelys abrupta Grandidier 1868 - Madagascar,...
dussumieri - Aldabra giant tortoiseAldabra Giant TortoiseThe Aldabra giant tortoise , from the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles, is one of the largest tortoises in the world.... - Draco dussumieriDraco dussumieriThe Southern Flying Lizard Draco dussumieri is an agamid lizard capable of gliding from tree to tree found in the Western Ghats and hill forests of southern India.-Description:...
- South Indian flying dragon - Enhydris dussumieriEnhydris dussumieriDussumier's Water Snake is a species of snake found in India and Bangladesh.-References:*Duméril, A. M. C., Bibron, G. & Duméril, A. H. A., 1854 Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Tome septième. Deuxième partie, comprenant l'histoire des serpents venimeux...
- Dussumier's Water SnakeWater snakeDifferent snakes are called water snakes. Most are colubrids. "Water snake" is also sometimes used as a descriptive term for any snakes that spend a significant time in or near fresh water, such as any species belonging to the family Acrochordidae... - HyporhamphusHyporhamphusHyporhamphus is a genus of fish.-Species:* Hyporhamphus yuri* Hyporhamphus xanthopterus* Hyporhamphus unifasciatus* Hyporhamphus unicuspis* Hyporhamphus taiwanensis* Hyporhamphus snyderi* Hyporhamphus sindensis...
dussumieri - Dussumier's halfbeakHalfbeakThe halfbeaks are a geographically widespread and numerically abundant family of epipelagic fish inhabiting warm waters around the world. The family Hemiramphidae is divided into two subfamilies, the primarily marine Hemiramphinae and the freshwater or estuarine Zenarchopterinae... - IstiblenniusIstiblenniusIstiblennius is a genus of combtooth blennies found in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It currently contains fourteen described species.-Species:* Imspringer, Istiblennius bellus * Istiblennius colei...
dussumieri - species of blenny - Johnius dussumieri - Dussumier's croakerSciaenidaeSciaenidae is a family of fish commonly called drums, croakers, or hardheads for the repetitive throbbing or drumming sounds they make...
- LabeoLabeoLabeo is a genus of carps in the family Cyprinidae. They are found mainly in the Old World tropics.It contains the typical labeos in the subfamily Labeoninae, which may not be a valid group, however, and is often included in the Cyprininae as tribe Labeonini...
dussumieri - species of carpCarpCarp are various species of oily freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, a very large group of fish native to Europe and Asia. The cypriniformes are traditionally grouped with the Characiformes, Siluriformes and Gymnotiformes to create the superorder Ostariophysi, since these groups have certain...
in Sri Lanka - Leiognathus dussumieri - Dussumier's ponyfishPonyfishThe ponyfishes also known as slipmouths or slimys are a small family, Leiognathidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes. They inhabit marine and brackish waters in the Indian Ocean and West Pacific....
- LizaLiza (genus)Liza is the largest genus of the 17 in the family Mugilidae. The genus Liza contains 24 species.Note: The mullet species with common name Liza is in factMugil liza, thus in the genus Mugil.-Taxonomy:...
dussumieri - Dussumier's mulletMullet (fish)The mullets or grey mullets are a family and order of ray-finned fish found worldwide in coastal temperate and tropical waters, and in some species in fresh water. Mullets have served as an important source of food in Mediterranean Europe since Roman times... - Mariaella dussumieriMariaella dussumieriMariaella dussumieri is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ariophantidae.Mariaella dussumieri is the type species of the genus Mariaella....
- an Asian species of slugSlugSlug is a common name that is normally applied to any gastropod mollusc that lacks a shell, has a very reduced shell, or has a small internal shell... - MugilMugilMugil is one genus among 17 genera containing all together about 80 species of ray-finned fish of the family Mugilidae commonly known as mullet...
dussumieri - a species of gray mullet - SalariasSalariasSalarias is a genus of fish in the Blenniidae family.It contains the following species:* Salarias alboguttatus, White-spotted blenny* Salarias ceramensis, Seram blenny* Salarias quadripennis, Jewelled blenny...
dussumieri - Dussumier's blenny - Salmaciella dussumieri - a species of starfish
- Semnopithecus dussumieri - Southern Plains Gray langurGray langurGray langurs or Hanuman langurs, the most widespread langurs of South Asia, are a group of Old World monkeys constituting the entirety of the genus Semnopithecus. All taxa have traditionally been placed in the single species Semnopithecus entellus...
- SphenomorphusSphenomorphusThe genus Sphenomorphus – vernacularly known as the common skinks – currently serves as a "wastebin taxon" for a large number of skinks...
dussumieri - Dussumier's Forest Skink - Tachysurus dussumieri - catfishCatfishCatfishes are a diverse group of ray-finned fish. Named for their prominent barbels, which resemble a cat's whiskers, catfish range in size and behavior from the heaviest and longest, the Mekong giant catfish from Southeast Asia and the second longest, the wels catfish of Eurasia, to detritivores...
from the Bay of Bengal - Tetronychoteuthis dussumieri - a small mollusk
- ThryssaThryssaThryssa is a genus of anchovies in the Engraulidae family.It contains the following species:-Species:* Thryssa adelae * Thryssa aestuaria...
dussumieri - Dussumier's thryssa; an anchovy - UcaUCAUCA can stand for:* Under color addition* Unicode collation algorithm* The University for the Creative Arts, England* The United States of Central America, existing in Latin America from 1823 to 1840* The Uniting Church in Australia...
dussumieri - a species of fiddler crabFiddler crabA fiddler crab, sometimes known as a calling crab, may be any of approximately 100 species of semi-terrestrial marine crabs which make up the genus Uca. As members of the family Ocypodidae, fiddler crabs are most closely related to the ghost crabs of the genus Ocypode. This entire group is composed...
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