Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet (26 August 1809 – 9 October 1892) was a French
naturalist, born in Lays,
Doubs. He was a member of the commission to
Algeria, primarily as a natural artist, drawing any natural findings. He collected specimens in the
Canary Islands,
Guatemala and
Mexico.[1]
He had a particular interest in
molluscs and was recognised as a leading expert in the field.[2]
Morelet married Noémie de Folin, sister of
Léopold de Folin. Morelet died of natural causes in 1892, in
Dijon.
Morelet A. (1845). Description des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles du Portugal. pp. [1–3], I–VII, 1–116, Pl. I–XIV. Paris. (Bailliere).
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Morelet A. (1860). Iles Açores. Notice sur l'histoire naturelle des Açores suivie d'une description des mollusques terrestres de cet archipel.scan
References
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abcdBeolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp.
ISBN978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Morelet", pp. 182-183).
^Fumagalli, Maria Cristina; Hulme, Peter; Robinson, Owen; Wylie, Lesley (2013). Surveying the American Tropics : A Literary Geography from New York to Rio. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. pp. 116–117.
ISBN9781846318900.
^"Fifty-ninth Supplement to the American Ornithological Society's Check-list of North American Birds", The Auk 135: 798-813, at p. 809.
doi:
10.1642/AUK-18-62.1. For a full taxonomic history of this species with copious references, see R. Wright,
"Sharpe's Pygmy Finch", Birding New Jersey, June 22, 2018.