Zéphirin Gerbe


Jean-Joseph Zéphirin Gerbe was a French naturalist. He was the first to discover the pattern of wing taxis, the absence or presence of the fifth secondary in birds.
He was co-author of Ornithologie européenne, ou Catalogue analytique et raisonné des oiseaux observés en Europe with countryman Côme-Damien Degland. He also published a French translation of Alfred Brehm's Illustrirtes Thierleben with the title La vie des animaux illustrée : description populaire du règne animal.
Species he described include Gerbe's vole.

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