Henri Émile Sauvage (22 September 1842 in Boulogne-sur-Mer – 3 January 1917 in Boulogne-sur-Mer) was a French paleontologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist.Wikispecies He was a leading expert on Mesozoic fish and reptiles.Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians: A Historical Perspective edited by Richard Moody
He worked as a curator at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Boulogne-sur-Mer, and published extensively on Late Jurassic dinosaurs and other vertebrates from the Boulonnais region of northern France.The Complete Dinosaur edited by M. K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz, James Orville Farlow He is mainly known for having first described in 1873 the famous pliosaurid Liopleurodon. He made important contributions involving vertebrate palaeontology in Portugal, describing in 1897, Suchosaurus girardi from jaw fragments found in that country.
From 1883 to 1896, he served as director of the station aquicole in Boulogne-sur-Mer. He was a member of the Société géologique de France.Data.BnF.fr Henri-Émile Sauvage (1842-1917) In 1893 Philippe Thomas published the palaeontological results of the Tunisian Scientific Exploration Mission (1885–1886) in six installments plus an atlas, including the work of Victor-Auguste Gauthier (sea urchins), Arnould Locard (Mollusca), Auguste Péron (Brachiopods, Bryozoa and Pentacrinitess) and Henri Émile Sauvage (fish).
The plesiosaurid species Lusonectes sauvagei commemorates his name,Acta Palaeontologica Polonica A New Plesiosauroid from the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) of Alhadas, Portugal as do the crustacean species Pseudanthessius sauvagei BEMON Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. S and the gecko species Bavayia sauvagii.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Sauvage", p. 233).
Works Note sur les geckotiens de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, 1878. Bassin houiller et permien d'Autun et d'Épinac, 1889–97 (with Frédéric Delafond, Michel Lévy, Bernard Renault, René Zeiller, 7 volumes).HathiTrust Digital Library Bassin houiller et permien d'Autun et d'Epinac. Histoire naturelle des poissons, (1891); in Alfred Grandidier's Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar.WorldCat Title Histoire naturelle des poissons Vertébrés fossiles du Portugal: Contributions à l'étude des poissons et des reptiles du jurassique et du crétacique, (1897).Open Library published works Musées municipaux de Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1898. "Amphibious Fishes" in Popular Science Monthly Volume 9, September 1876 "The Archer-Fishes" in Popular Science Monthly Volume 12, January 1878 "The Matamata" in Popular Science Monthly Volume 16, March 1880.English Wikisource Articles in Popular Science Monthly Biography: La Vie et l'oeuvre d'Emile Sauvage; Author: Casimir Cépède. Publisher: Boulogne-sur-Mer :Imprimerie G. Hamain, 1923.WorldCat Title La Vie et l'oeuvre d'Emile Sauvage
Taxon described by him See :Category:Taxa named by Henri Émile Sauvage
Taxon named in his honor The Sauvage's mormyrid, Petrocephalus sauvagii, is a species of electric fish in the family Mormyridae, found in the Congo River basin and Niger Delta in Africa.
References
External links IDREF.fr extensive bibliography.