Nisha Rathode (Editor)

Rene Leon Bourret

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Name
  
Rene Bourret

Role
  
Geologist

Rene Leon Bourret (28 January 1884, Nerac, (Lot-et-Garonne) - 28 July 1957) was a French herpetologist and geologist.

In 1900, he arrived in French Indochina as a member of the military. Beginning in 1907, he worked as a surveyor for the "cadastral survey". From 1919 to 1925 he performed geological surveys in Indochina, becoming a professor in 1925 at the Ecole Superieure des Sciences, Universite Indochinoise in Hanoi. Two years later he released his first zoological publication, a general review on vertebrates native to Indochina.

During the ensuing years he published three major works on herpetofauna native to Indochina; monographs on snakes (1936), chelonians (1941) and amphibians (1942). During the Japanese occupation of Indochina, he remained in Hanoi, where he continued regular publications. In 1947 he returned to France and settled in Toulouse. Most of his specimens are preserved in museums in Toulouse and Paris.

The following are herpetological species/subspecies that are named after him:

  • Bourret's blind skink, Dibamus bourreti
  • Bourret's box turtle, Cuora bourreti
  • Bourret's cat snake, Boiga bourreti
  • Bourret's emo skink, Emoia laobaoense
  • Bourret's odd-scaled snake, Achalinus ater
  • Bourret's pit viper, Trimeresurus jerdonii bourreti.

    • Selected writings

  • Etudes geologiques sur le nord-est du Tonkin, 1922 (dissertation) - Geological studies on northeast Tonkin.
  • Etudes geologiques dans la region de Pay-Lay (Moyen Laos), 1925 - Geological studies of the Pay-Lay region (Moyen Laos).
  • Les serpents de l'Indochine, 1936 - Snakes of Indochina.
  • Notes herpetologiques sur l'Indochine francaise : no. 1 + 18-25, 1939-1941 - Herpetological notes on French Indochina.
  • Les batraciens de l'Indochine, 1942 - Amphibians of Indochina.
  • Les mammiferes de l'Indochine : les gibbons, 1947 - Mammals of Indochina, gibbons.
  • Les lezards de l'Indochine (with Roger Bour) - Lizards of Indochina.

    • References

    Rene Leon Bourret Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA