Alfred Moquin-Tandon

Alfred Moquin-Tandon

Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon (May 7, 1804 - April 15, 1863) was a French naturalist and doctor.

Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. In 1850, he was sent by the French government to Corsica to study the island's flora. In 1853, he moved to Paris, later becoming director of the Jardin des Plantes and the Académie des Sciences.

His books included L'Histoire Naturelle des Iles Canaries (1835–44), co-authored with Philip Barker Webb and Sabin Berthelot.

One of his specialities was the family Amaranthaceae (The Amaranth family).

The standard author abbreviation Moq. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

Bibliography

• Moquin-Tandon A. (1855–1856). Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de France, contenant des études générales sur leur anatomie et leur physiologie et la description particulière des genres, des espèces et des variétés. (4-5), 368 pp., J.-B. Baillière, Paris.
  • volume 1
  • volume 2

References

1. ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do. 

External links

• Short biography
• works by Alfred Moquin-Tandon at Internet Archive

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Name	Moquin-Tandon
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Date of birth	May 7, 1804
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Date of death	April 15, 1863
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