What is Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest?
[[Image:Anselme Gaetan Desmarest 1784-1838.jpg|thumb|right|Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest.]] '''Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest''' (1784 – 4 June 1838) was a [[France|French]] [[zoologist]] and author. He was the son of [[Nicolas Desmarest]]. Desmarest published ''Histoire Naturelle des Tangaras, des Manakins et des Todiers'' (1805), ''Considérations générales sur la classe des crustacés'' (1825), ''Mammalogie ou description des espèces des Mammifères.'' Paris: Veuve Agasse(1820), and ''Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles'' (1816–30, with [[André Marie Constant Duméril]]). His son [[Eugène Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest]] (1816–1889) was also a zoologist. {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Desmarest, Anselme Gaetan}} [[Category:French zoologists]] [[Category:1784 births]] [[Category:1838 deaths]]