Jean René Constant Quoy was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 zoologist.

Along with Joseph Paul Gaimard

Joseph Paul Gaimard

Joseph Paul Gaimard was a French naval surgeon and naturalist.Along with Jean René Constant Quoy he served as naturalist on the ships L'Uranie under Louis de Freycinet 1817-1820, and L'Astrolabe under Jules Dumont d'Urville 1826-1829...

 he served as naturalist aboard La Coquille under Louis Isidore Duperrey

Louis Isidore Duperrey

Louis Isidore Duperrey was a French sailor and explorer.Duperrey joined the navy in 1800, and served as marine hydrologist to Louis Claude de Saulces 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.The name derives from an early navigational instrument, the astrolabe, a precursor to the sextant.-Legacy:...

(1826-1829) under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville

Jules Dumont d'Urville

Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville was a French explorer, naval officer and rear admiral, who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica.-Childhood:Dumont was born at Condé-sur-Noireau...

. During this voyage they discovered the now extinct giant skink of Tonga

Tonga

Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga , is a state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over of ocean in the South Pacific...

 Tachygia

Tachygia

Tachygia is an extinct genus of skink from Tonga. The type and only known species is T. microlepis.-References:** World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. . Downloaded on 20 July 2007....

 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 French zoologist.Henri Milne-Edwards was the 27th child of William Edwards, an English planter and militia colonel in Jamaica and Elisabeth Vaux, a French. He was born in Bruges, Belgium, where his parents had retired. At that time, Bruges was a part of the...
  
  , 1834
• Ischnochiton quoyanus J. Thiele
  Johannes Thiele
  Johannes Thiele, full name Karl Hermann Johannes Thiele was a German zoologist specialized in malacology. His Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde is a standard work...
  
  , 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....
  
  (Cracticus quoyi)