Fernand Angel


Fernand Angel was a French herpetologist.
In 1905 he began work as a préparateur under Léon Vaillant and François Mocquard at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. Later on, he became curator of the herpetology collection at the museum, a position he maintained for several decades until the time of his death in 1950.
He specialized in herpetofauna native to Madagascar, Indochina and the French colonies of Western Africa. Most of his scientific papers were in the field of systematics.

Published works

He performed illustrative work for the volume on reptiles in the series "Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale", complementing the other drawings done by Marie Firmin Bocourt. Other noted works by Fernand Angel are: