Editing Gabriel Bibron (section)

{{Short description|French zoologist and herpetologist (1805–1848)}}
{{Infobox scientist
| image             = Bibron Gabriel 1806-1848.png
| birth_date        = 20 October 1805
| birth_place       = [[Paris]], [[France]]
| death_date        = {{d-da|27 March 1848|20 October 1805}}
| death_place       = [[Saint-Alban-les-Eaux]], [[France]]
| field             = [[Zoology]], [[Herpetology]]
| author_abbrev_zoo = '''Bibron'''
}}

[[File:Erpétologie Générale plate 89.jpg|thumb|{{center|Plate 89 from ''Erpétologie Générale''}}]]

'''Gabriel Bibron''' (20 October 1805 &ndash; 27 March 1848) was a [[French people|French]] [[zoologist]] and [[Herpetology|herpetologist]]. He was born in [[Paris]]. The son of an employee of the [[Museum national d'histoire naturelle]], he had a good foundation in [[natural history]] and was hired to collect [[vertebrate]]s in [[Italy]] and [[Sicily]]. Under the direction of [[Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent]] (1778&ndash;1846), he took part in the [[Morea expedition]] to [[Peloponnese]].<ref>[http://expedition.seaaroundus.org/Expeditions/exped2.php?expedKey=24 Scientific Commission's voyage to Morea.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202230150/http://expedition.seaaroundus.org/Expeditions/exped2.php?expedKey=24|date=2013-12-02}}</ref>

He classified numerous [[reptile]] [[species]] with [[André Marie Constant Duméril]] (1774&ndash;1860), whom he had met in 1832. Duméril was interested mainly in the relations between [[Genus|genera]], and he left to Bibron the task of describing the species. Working together they produced the ''Erpétologie Générale'', a comprehensive account of the [[reptiles]], published in ten volumes from 1834 to 1854.<ref>[[Karl Patterson Schmidt|Schmidt, Karl P.]]; Davis, D. Dwight (1941). ''Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada''. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 365 pp. ("History of snake study", p. 12).</ref> Also, Bibron assisted Duméril with teaching duties at the museum and was an instructor at a primary school in Paris.

Bibron contracted [[tuberculosis]] and retired in 1845 to [[Saint-Alban-les-Eaux]], where he died aged 42.