Jean Xavier Hyacinthe Montrouzier
Encyclopedia
Reverendus Pater Jean Xavier Hyacinthe Montrouzier (1820- 1897)
was a French
Marist priest
, explorer, botanist, zoologist and entomologist.
Abbé Montrouzier studied the flora
and fauna
of Melanesia
especially New Caledonia
.
was a French
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
Marist priest
Marist Brothers
The Marist Brothers, or Little Brothers of Mary, are a Catholic religious order of brothers and affiliated lay people. The order was founded in France, at La Valla-en-Gier near Lyon in 1817 by Saint Marcellin Champagnat, a young French priest of the Society of Mary...
, explorer, botanist, zoologist and entomologist.
Abbé Montrouzier studied the flora
Flora
Flora is the plant life occurring in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring or indigenous—native plant life. The corresponding term for animals is fauna.-Etymology:...
and fauna
Fauna
Fauna or faunæ is all of the animal life of any particular region or time. The corresponding term for plants is flora.Zoologists and paleontologists use fauna to refer to a typical collection of animals found in a specific time or place, e.g. the "Sonoran Desert fauna" or the "Burgess shale fauna"...
of Melanesia
Melanesia
Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania extending from the western end of the Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, and eastward to Fiji. The region comprises most of the islands immediately north and northeast of Australia...
especially New Caledonia
New Caledonia
New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...
.
Works
- Montrouzier, P. 1855. Essai sur la faune de l'île de WoodlarkWoodlark IslandWoodlark Island, known to its inhabitants simply as Woodlark or Muyua, is an island in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. It is called Murua by the inhabitants of some other islands in the province...
ou Mouiou. Annales de la Société d'Agriculture de Lyon 2 7: 1–114
Honours
Plants named for him include- (Euphorbiaceae) Phyllanthus montrouzieri GuillauminAndré GuillauminAndré Louis Joseph Edmond Armand Guillaumin is a French botanist who was born on 21 June 1885 in Arrou and died on 29 May 1974 in Athis-Mons. He obtained his license in natural sciences in 1906 and began work in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris in 1909 as a preparer...
& Guillaumin - (Lecythidaceae) Barringtonia montrouzieri Vieill.
- (Meliaceae) Aglaia montrouzieri Pierre ex Pellegr.
External links
- http://www.fond4beetles.com/Buprestidae/Colleagues/Montrouzier.htm Portrait photograph