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Claude Jourdan (18 June 1803, Heyrieux – 12 February 1873, Lyon) was a French zoologist and paleontologist. In Lyon he was a professor of zoology to the ''Faculté des sciences'', and a professor of comparative anatomy at the ''École des Beaux-Arts''. From 1832 to 1869 he was director of the natural history museum in Lyon.〔(Annales ..., Volumes 50-52 ) by Société linnéenne de Lyon, Amédée Bonnet〕〔(Jourdan, Claude (1803-après 1869) ) Compléments historiographiques, Biographies〕 As a zoologist, he conducted studies of living and extinct vertebrates, including Proboscidea (elephants and their ancestors). In 1840–48 he is credited with uncovering 2000 fossils at various excavation sites in France.〔 As a taxonomist, he described ''Acerodon'', a genus of Old World fruit bats, and ''Hemigalus'', a monospecific genus associated with the banded palm civet, ''Hemigalus derbyanus''. He also classified the following mammal species: * Golden Atlantic tree-rat, ''Phyllomys blainvilii''. * Western brush wallaby, ''Macropus irma''.〔(Taxon author: Jourdan, 1837 ) ITIS Search Results〕 In 1839 Jules Bourcier named the rufous-shafted woodstar, ''Chaetocercus jourdanii'', after him. It is sometimes referred to as "Jourdan's woodstar".〔(The Eponym Dictionary of Birds ) by Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson〕 == Published works == * ''Mémoire sur un nouveau genre de Lémurien''. 1834. * ''Mémoires sur deux mammifères nouveaux de l'Inde'', 1837. * ''Mémoires sur un rongeur fossile des calcaires d'eau douce du centre de la France'', 1837. * ''Mémoire sur cinq mammifères nouveaux'', 1837. * ''Note géologique et paléontologique sur une partie de l'Ardèche''. * ''Descriptions de restes fossiles de deux grands mammifères des terrains sidérolitiques''. * ''Description d'ossements de l'Ormenalurus agilis'', 1866.〔(Mémoires ) by Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts, Lyon. Classe des sciences〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Claude Jourdan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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