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Jean René Constant Quoy (November 10, 1790 - July 4, 1869) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 zoologist.

Along with Joseph Paul Gaimard
Joseph Paul Gaimard

Joseph Paul Gaimard was a France natural history.Along with Jean Ren? Constant Quoy he served as naturalist aboard the ships La Coquille under Louis Isidore Duperrey, and L'Astrolabe under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville between 1826 and 1829....
 he served as naturalist aboard La Coquille under Louis Isidore Duperrey
Louis Isidore Duperrey

Louis Isidore Duperrey was a France sailor and explorer.Duperrey joined the navy in 1802, and served as marine hydrologist to Louis de Freycinet aboard the Uranie ....
 during its circumnavigation of the globe (1822-25), and the Astrolabe
French ship Astrolabe (1817)

The Astrolabe was a horse barge converted to an exploration ship of the French Navy. She is famous for her travels with Jules Dumont d'Urville....
 (1826-1829) under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville
Jules Dumont d'Urville

Rear Admiral Jules S?bastien C?sar Dumont d'Urville was a France List of explorers and French Navy, who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica....
. During this voyage they discovered the now extinct giant skink of Tonga
Tonga

The Kingdom of Tonga in the south Pacific Ocean comprises an archipelago of 171 islands, 48 of them inhabited, stretching over a distance of about 800 kilometres in a north-south line....
 Tachygia
Tachygia

Tachygia is an extinct genus of skink from Tonga. The type species and only known species is Tonga Ground Skink....
 microlepis.

The following genera or species were named in his honor :






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Jean René Constant Quoy (November 10, 1790 - July 4, 1869) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 zoologist.

Along with Joseph Paul Gaimard
Joseph Paul Gaimard

Joseph Paul Gaimard was a France natural history.Along with Jean Ren? Constant Quoy he served as naturalist aboard the ships La Coquille under Louis Isidore Duperrey, and L'Astrolabe under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville between 1826 and 1829....
 he served as naturalist aboard La Coquille under Louis Isidore Duperrey
Louis Isidore Duperrey

Louis Isidore Duperrey was a France sailor and explorer.Duperrey joined the navy in 1802, and served as marine hydrologist to Louis de Freycinet aboard the Uranie ....
 during its circumnavigation of the globe (1822-25), and the Astrolabe
French ship Astrolabe (1817)

The Astrolabe was a horse barge converted to an exploration ship of the French Navy. She is famous for her travels with Jules Dumont d'Urville....
 (1826-1829) under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville
Jules Dumont d'Urville

Rear Admiral Jules S?bastien C?sar Dumont d'Urville was a France List of explorers and French Navy, who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica....
. During this voyage they discovered the now extinct giant skink of Tonga
Tonga

The Kingdom of Tonga in the south Pacific Ocean comprises an archipelago of 171 islands, 48 of them inhabited, stretching over a distance of about 800 kilometres in a north-south line....
 Tachygia
Tachygia

Tachygia is an extinct genus of skink from Tonga. The type species and only known species is Tonga Ground Skink....
 microlepis.

The following genera or species were named in his honor :
  • Quoya Labbé, 1934
  • Quoyia Gray, 1839
  • Terebra quoygaimardi Cernohorsky, 1976
  • Pilumnus quoyi H. Milne-Edwards
    Henri Milne-Edwards

    Henri Milne-Edwards was an eminent France zoologist.Milne-Edwards, was the 27th child of an English father Wiliam Edwards and a French mother Elisabeth Vaux....
    , 1834
  • Ischnochiton quoyanus J. Thiele
    Johannes Thiele

    Johannes Thiele was a Germany zoologist specialized in malacology. His Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde is a standard work. From 1904 until his retirement in 1925 he was the curator of the malacological collection at the Museum f?r Naturkunde in Berlin....
    , 1910
  • Black Butcherbird
    Black Butcherbird

    The Black Butcherbird is a species of bird in the Cracticidae family.It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests....
     (Cracticus quoyi)