Charles Coquerel

Charles Coquerel, in full Jean Charles Coquerel, was a French navy surgeon, algologist and entomologist, born on 2 December 1822 and died on 12 April 1867. He collected insects in Madagascar and the neighbouring islands, and a number of them were described after his death by Léon Fairmaire in his 1869 notes on the beetles Coquerel gathered in Madagascar and on the African coast. During his lifetime he wrote a number of articles and books, including an appendix on insects in Auguste Vinson's account of a voyage to Madagascar for the coronation of Radama II in 1865. Several animals bear his name, including Coquerel's coua, Coquerel's sifaka and Coquerel's giant mouse lemur, all endemic to Madagascar, and his insect collection is held at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris.