Talk:Rodrigues day gecko

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[edit] Reality is stranger than fiction

Richard Fortey: Life: An Unauthorized Biography., pp.282-:

There was a French collector, M. Thirioux, who acquired and "preserved" the last two specimens of an exotic lizard species from Rodriguez[sic] Island, in the Pacific Ocean, only to die himself of a heart attack later the same day, thus neatly ensuring the simultaneous demise both of a species and his own person.

"M." is probably for "Monsieur". The famous Mauritian naturalist Louis Etienne Thirioux died June 11, 1917. It appears to be this person, and this species.