Florent Prévost


Florent Prévost was a French naturalist and illustrator.
Prévost was assistant naturalist at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. He was the author of various zoological works, including Les Pigeons par Madame Knip and, with C. L. Lemaire, Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux d'Europe. He did illustrative work in books by Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Charles Lucien Bonaparte and Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon.
He worked on the birds from the voyage of La Venus with Marc Athanese Parfait Oeillet Des Murs, and on the birds and mammals brought back from the French expedition to Abyssinia between 1839 and 1843.
Prevost's ground sparrow, Prevost's squirrel, and Gerard's water snake are named after him.

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