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    René Primevère Lesson (20 March 1794 – 28 April 1849) was a French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist. Lesson was born at Rochefort...
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  • during its circumnavigation of the globe (1822–1825). Along with René Primevère Lesson he collected numerous natural history specimens in South America...
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    montane forest. It is named after Zoë Lesson (fl. 1810), the wife of French ornithologist René-Primevère Lesson, who described it. BirdLife International...
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    Levrault. Dumont de Sainte-Croix's daughter, Clémence married René-Primevère Lesson, a surgeon and noted French naturalist. His younger brother, André...
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  • "Un naturaliste saintongeais: René-Primevère Lesson (1794–1849)" [A naturalist from Saintonge: René-Primevère Lesson (1794–1849)]. Annales de la Société...
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  • Anna's hummingbird was named in her honor by fellow ornithologist René Primevère Lesson. "Rivoli's Hummingbird Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of...
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    genus Otis. The genus was established by the French naturalist René Primevère Lesson in 1839 and included only one species which was formerly described...
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    Diphyllodes (category Taxa named by René Lesson)
    Diphyllodes is a genus of birds-of-paradise. Established by René-Primevère Lesson in 1834, it contains two species: the magnificent bird-of-paradise and...
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    included Marodactylus cinereus by Goldfuss in 1820, P. flindersii by René Primevère Lesson in 1827, and P. koala by John Edward Gray in 1827.: 45  The koala...
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  • surgeon René Primevère Lesson, in a volume of the three-year circumnavigation (1922-1925) by Louis Isidore Duperrey, captain of La Coquille. Lesson's holotype...
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