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Dunkel, Alexander R.; Zijlstra, Jelle S.; Groves, Colin P. (2011). "Giant rabbits, marmosets, and British comedies: etymology of lemur names, part 1".
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Cheke, Anthony (2011). "Sonnerat's shrew- evidence for a new and possibly extinct species in an early 19th century manuscript (Mammalia: Soricidae)".
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Sonnerat collected bird and plant specimens on his travels. He was the first person to give a scientific description of the south Chinese fruit tree
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Ly-Tio-Fane, Madeleine (1976). Pierre Sonnerat 1748–1814. An account of his life and work. Self published. Mauritius.
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in 1767 and worked for him briefly, travelling to Reunion. He then worked as a naval commissar and travelled to
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is applied to plants he described. His name is used in the specific name of the
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Collection de planches pour servir au Voyage aux Indes Orientales et a la Chine
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is thought to have become extinct and was collected from around Pondicherry.
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Voyage aux Indes orientales et à la Chine, fait depuis 1774 jusqu'à 1781
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between 1769 and 1772. In Mauritius, Sonnerat met the naturalist
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Hacking, I. (1981). "Was there ever a radical mistranslation?".
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French naturalist, colonial administrator, writer and explorer
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European and American voyages of scientific exploration
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naturalist
explorer
grey junglefowl
Lyon
botanist
Pierre Poivre
Mascarenes
Asia
Philippines
Moluccas
Philibert Commerson
India
China
Pondicherry
Cape of Good Hope
Africa
Sri Lanka
Joseph Banks
Paris
lychee
Malagasy
lemur
Malagasy
Indri
Dacelo novaeguineae
Pygoscelis papua
New Guinea
botanical author abbreviation

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