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Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest
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Born (1784-03-06)6 March 1784
Died 4 June 1838(1838-06-04) (aged 54)
Known for Histoire Naturelle des Tangaras, des Manakins et des Todiers
Children Eugène Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest
Parent(s)
Awards American Philosophical Society, Académie Nationale de Médecine
Scientific career
Fields Zoologist
Institutions École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort
Influences Georges Cuvier, Alexandre Brongniart
Author abbrev. (zoology) Desmarest

Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (6 March 1784 – 4 June 1838) was a French zoologist and author. He was the son of Nicolas Desmarest and father of Eugène Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest. Desmarest was a disciple of Georges Cuvier and Alexandre Brongniart, and in 1815, he succeeded Pierre André Latreille to the professorship of zoology at the École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1819 and to the Académie Nationale de Médecine in 1820.

Desmarest published Histoire Naturelle des Tangaras, des Manakins et des Todiers (1805), Considérations générales sur la classe des crustacés (1825), Mammalogie ou description des espèces des Mammifères (1820) and Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (1816–30, with André Marie Constant Duméril).

The brown algae Desmarestia is named in honour of Desmarest, as well as the family (Desmarestiaceae) — and in turn, the order (Desmarestiales) — of which the genus is the type species.

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