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René Primevère Lesson (20 March 1794 – 28 April 1849) was a French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist. Lesson was born at Rochefort...

the published writings of two 19th-century scientific explorers, René Primevère Lesson and Jules de Blosseville. They had visited New Zealand in 1824 as...

(Reynaud, 1830) in La Centurie Zoologique — a monograph published by René Primevère Lesson during the age of worldwide scientific exploration. Reynaud's brief...

included Marodactylus cinereus by Goldfuss in 1820, P. flindersii by René Primevère Lesson in 1827, and P. koala by John Edward Gray in 1827.: 45  The koala...

by her Ladies in Waiting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter from 1855. René Primevère Lesson named the “Anna's hummingbird” after her. Carette Madame: Recollections...

Diphyllodes is a genus of birds-of-paradise. Established by René-Primevère Lesson in 1834, it contains two species: the magnificent bird-of-paradise and...

the first bird of paradise encountered by the French naturalist René-Primevère Lesson, the first westerner to see live wild birds of paradise. Manucodia...

montane forest. It is named after Zoë Lesson (fl. 1810), the wife of French ornithologist René-Primevère Lesson, who described it. BirdLife International...

René-Primevère Lesson in 1843, to accommodate a single species, the grey-headed fish eagle, which is therefore considered as the type species. Lesson...

surgeon René Primevère Lesson, in a volume of the three-year circumnavigation (1922-1925) by Louis Isidore Duperrey, captain of La Coquille. Lesson's holotype...

Anna's hummingbird was named in her honor by fellow ornithologist René Primevère Lesson. "Rivoli's Hummingbird Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of...

a genus of bird in the family Megapodiidae. First described by René Primevère Lesson in 1828, it contains the following species: Red-billed brushturkey...

shark, or lesser white shark, was described in 1831 by naturalist René-Primevère Lesson, who named the shark Carcharhinus maou. It was next described by...

gannet family, Sulidae. First described by the French naturalist René-Primevère Lesson in 1831, the masked booby is one of six species of booby in the...

him in the name of the Flame-faced tanager (Tangara parzudakii). René Primevère Lesson named two species of hummingbird after Parzudaki. In 1838 he described...

this fruit dove was evidently discovered 30 years earlier, by René Primevère Lesson (1794–1849), while serving as naturalist aboard La Coquille. It...

Juveniles are duller. The genus was defined by French naturalist René-Primevère Lesson in 1831. The name Micropsitta is derived from the Greek mikros meaning...

genus Otis. The genus was established by the French naturalist René Primevère Lesson in 1839 and included only one species which was formerly described...

second. René-Primevère Lesson also travelled on La Coquille as a naval doctor and naturalist. On the return to France in March 1825, Lesson and Dumont...

Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac and named after René Primevère Lesson. The type specimen was collected by Lesson off the coast of New Guinea during the circumnavigational...