Editing Armand David (section)

==Eponymy==
The plants ''[[Buddleja davidii]]'' and ''[[Ulmus davidiana]]'', the David Elm, were named for him,<ref>{{cite news|title= Urban Perennial|newspaper= [[The Big Issue]]|first= Ben |last= Dark|date= 4 April 2022|page= 39}}</ref> and also ''[[Lilium davidii]]''. The fish ''[[Sarcocheilichthys davidi]]'' was  named in his honor by [[Henri Émile Sauvage]] in 1878, because Père David collected the type specimen.<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/cypriniformes14/ | title = Order CYPRINIFORMES: Families ACHEILOGNATHIDAE, GOBIONIDAE and TANICHTHYIDAE | access-date = 3 March 2021 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018 | archive-date = 29 September 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190929065546/http://www.etyfish.org/cypriniformes14/ | url-status = dead }}</ref> Père David's deer (''[[Elaphurus davidianus]]'') was likewise named after him by [[Alphonse Milne-Edwards]].

Père David's Rat Snake (''[[Elaphe|Elaphe davidi]]'') was named in his honor by [[Henri Émile Sauvage]] in 1884.<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Père David", p. 203).</ref>