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George Albert Boulenger (born Brussels, Belgium, October 19, 1858 died Saint Malo, France, November 23, 1937) was a British zoologist. Image File history File links Subject : Boulenger George (1858-1937) British zoologist File links The following pages link to this file: George Albert Boulenger ...
Image File history File links Subject : Boulenger George (1858-1937) British zoologist File links The following pages link to this file: George Albert Boulenger ...
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Zoology (Greek zoon = animal and logos = word) is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. ...
Life
Boulenger was the only son of Gustave Boulenger, a Belgian public notary, and Juliette Piérart de Valenciennes. He graduated in 1876 from the Free University in Brussels with a degree in natural sciences and worked for a while at the Museum of Natural History of Brussels as an assistant naturalist studying amphibians, reptiles, and fishes. He also made frequent visits during this time to the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris and the British Museum in London. For other uses, see Amphibian (disambiguation). ...
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Groups Conodonta Hyperoartia Petromyzontidae (lampreys) Pteraspidomorphi (early jawless fish) Thelodonti Anaspida Cephalaspidomorphi (early jawless fish) Galeaspida Pituriaspida Osteostraci Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates) Placodermi Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish) Acanthodii Osteichthyes (bony fish) Actinopterygii (ray-finned fish) Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish) Actinistia (coelacanths) Dipnoi (lungfish) A fish is a poikilothermic (cold-blooded)* water-dwelling...
The Muséum national dHistoire naturelle (MNHN) is the French national museum of natural history. ...
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In 1880, he was invited to work at the Natural History Museum by Dr. Albert C. L. G. Günther and assigned to the task of cataloguing the amphibians in the collection. His position in the British Museum meant that he had to be a civil servant of the British Empire, and so became a naturalized British subject. In 1882 he became a first-class assistant in the Department of Zoology and remained in that position until his retirement in 1920. The Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London, has an ornate terracotta facade typical of high Victorian architecture. ...
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther. ...
After his retirement from the British Museum, Boulenger studied roses and published 34 papers on botanical subjects and two volumes on the roses of Europe. The introduction of this article does not provide enough context for readers unfamiliar with the subject. ...
World map showing location of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ...
According to biographical accounts, he was incredibly methodical and had an amazing memory that enabled him to remember every specimen and scientific name he ever saw. He also had extraordinary powers of writing and seldom made a second draft of anything he wrote and his manuscripts showed but few corrections before going to the publisher.
Boulenger also played the violin, could speak French, German and English apart from reading Spanish, Italian and a bit of Russian. As a zoologist, he also had a working knowledge of both Greek and Latin. The violin is a stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a perfect fifth apart. ...
By 1921, Boulenger had published 877 papers totaling more than 5,000 pages, as well as 19 monographs on fishes, amphibians, and reptiles. The list of his publications and its index of species covers 77 printed pages.
He described 1,096 species of fish, 556 species of amphibians, and 872 species of reptiles. He was famous for his monographs on amphibians, lizards and other reptiles and fishes as well as for his monographs on the fishes of Africa. This page is about Lizards, the order of reptile. ...
Africa is the worlds second-largest continent and 3rd most populous. ...
He was a member of the American Society of Ichthyologists( 1935) and Herpetologists elected him as its first honorary member, and in 1937, Belgium conferred him the Order of Leopold, the highest honor awarded to a civilian.
He was an expert on African freshwater fishes despite never having been to Africa.
Work on cave dwelling fishes In 1897 King Leopold II of Belgium started to recruit naturalists to help create the Congo museum. Boulenger was named chairman for this commission. King Leopold II His Majesty King Leopold II of the Belgians (Louis Philippe Marie Victor) (April 9, 1835–December 17, 1909), succeeded his father, Leopold I of Belgium, to the Belgian throne in 1865 and remained king until his death. ...
His main discovery in 1921 was a strange fish from Congo. It was eyeless and lacked pigmentation. He recognized it as new and unrelated to any extant epigean (eyed, surface) species of Africa. He wrote a brief paper describing this new species of cave fish, the first ever described from Africa. He called it Caecobarbus geertsii, from caeco = blind, barbus = barb, and geertsii, honoring a mysterious person, M. Geerts, who provided him with the specimen. Today it is known as the Congo or African blind barb. This was published in Nature. Nature is one of the oldest and most reputable general-purpose scientific journals, first published on November 4, 1869. ...
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