l’Erpétologie générale ou Histoire naturelle complète des reptiles (nine volumes, 1834–1854). In this, 1,393 species are described in detail and their anatomy, physiology, and bibliography are specified. However, Duméril maintained the amphibians among the reptiles in spite of the work of Alexandre Brongniart or Pierre André Latreille or the anatomical discoveries of Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876) and Johannes Peter Müller (1801–1858). He was interested all his life in the insects and published several memoirs on entomology. His principal entomological work is Entomologie analytique (1860, two volumes). With his son Auguste, also a zoologist, he created the first vivarium for reptiles of the Jardin des Plantes. Duméril always considered observations on animal behaviour of taxonomic significance. After 1853, he began to cede his position to his son and he retired completely in 1857. He was made a commander of the Legion of Honour two months before his death. Species named after A.M.C. Duméril The worm Platynereis dumerilii The Greater Amberjack fish Seriola dumerili The bryozoan, Callopora dumerilii The moth Luperina dumerilii The isopod Rocinela dumerilii The aquatic isopod crustacean Sphaeroma dumerilii The Filefish Cantherhines dumerilii The Lizard Acanthodactylus dumerilii The Boa Snake Acrantophis dumerili The wolf snake Lycodon dumerili The coral snake Micrurus dumerilii The Amazon River Turtle Peltocephalus dumerilianus The lizard Stenocercus dumerilii The Snake Urotheca dumerilii The Monitor Lizard Varanus dumerilii See also Gabriel Bibron Auguste Duméril References External links Duméril's classification of the insects 1774 births 1860 deaths Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur French entomologists French ichthyologists French herpetologists Members of the French Academy of Sciences People from Amiens Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery National Museum of Natural History (France) people 19th-century French zoologists Duméril (used also for his son)