Emile Deville

Emile Deville (18241853) was a French physician , naturalist and taxidermist

Emile Deville, already an employee of Muséum national d'histoire naturelle joined the 1843 expedition of Francis de Laporte de Castelnau to South America with the doctor and botanist Hugh Algernon Weddell. He returned with many bird specimens, especially parrots including two new species Bonaparte's Parakeet and the Dusky-headed Parakeet which he described in 1851. He also described, with Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, the White-tailed Titi and, with de Castelnau some crabs.

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