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    Joseph Paul Gaimard (31 January 1793 – 10 December 1858) was a French naval surgeon and naturalist. Gaimard was born at Saint-Zacharie on January 31,...
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    was surgeon-major on a journey to Réunion (1814–1815). Along with Joseph Paul Gaimard, he served as naturalist and surgeon aboard the Uranie under Louis...
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    species was identified as a new species by Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard in 1824 from a drawing made in the South Pacific in 1820. It is the...
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    Quokka (category Taxa named by Joseph Paul Gaimard)
    T20165A166611530.en. Retrieved 7 April 2021. Quoy, [Jean René Constant]; Gaimard, [Joseph Paul] (1830). "Kangurus brachyurus". Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe:...
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    Ctenochaetus striatus (category Taxa named by Joseph Paul Gaimard)
    striatus in 1825 by the French naturalists Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard with its type locality given as Guam in the Marianas Islands. The...
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    Trumpeter whiting (category Taxa named by Joseph Paul Gaimard)
    The species was first described by Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard in 1824 from specimens collected from the waters of Sydney Harbour...
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    Parore (category Taxa named by Joseph Paul Gaimard)
    described as Boops tricuspidatus in 1824 by Jean René Constant Quoy & Joseph Paul Gaimard with the type locality given as "Shark Bay, Western Australia". The...
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    Galápagos tortoise (category Taxa named by Joseph Paul Gaimard)
    specific designation of niger, formerly feminized to nigra ("black"—Quoy & Gaimard, 1824b) was resurrected in 1984 after it was discovered to be the senior...
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    Polycarpa aurata (category Taxa named by Joseph Paul Gaimard)
    name Polycarpa aurata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) Synonyms Ascidia aurata Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 Pandocia aurata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) Pandocia botryllifera...
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    susceptible to fisheries. French naturalists Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard originally described the cookiecutter shark during the 1817–1820...
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