Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest


Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest was a French zoologist and author. He was the son of Nicolas Desmarest and father of Eugène Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest. Desmarest was a disciple of Georges Cuvier and Alexandre Brongniart, and in 1815, he succeeded Pierre André Latreille to the professorship of zoology at the École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort. In 1820 he was elected to the Académie Nationale de Médecine.
Desmarest published Histoire Naturelle des Tangara , Considérations générales sur la classe des crustacés, mammalogy and Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles.
The brown algae Desmarestia is named in honour of Desmarest, as well as the family — and in turn, the order — of which the genus is the type species.

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Certain works by Desmarest are cited in 19th- and 20th-century references and attributed to A. G. Demarest which would apparently be a perpetuating error.