*** Welcome to piglix ***

Zéphirin Gerbe


Jean-Joseph Zéphirin Gerbe (21 December 1810, Bras – 26 June 1890, Bras) was a French naturalist.

He was co-author of Ornithologie européenne, ou Catalogue analytique et raisonné des oiseaux observés en Europe with countryman Côme-Damien Degland (second edition, 1867). He also published a French translation of Alfred Brehm's Illustrirtes Thierleben with the title La vie des animaux illustrée : description populaire du règne animal (4 volumes).

Species he described include Gerbe's vole.



...
Wikipedia

...