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Pierre André Latreille (1762–1833)
Latreille, Pierre André (lä-trā’ē). A French zoölogist; born at Brives, Nov. 29, 1762; died at Paris, Feb. 6, 1833. He has contributed materially to the classification of the animal kingdom, as in a ‘History of the Salamanders’ (1800); ‘Natural History of Reptilia’ (4 vols., 1802); ‘Genera of Crustacea and Insecta’; ‘Course in Entomology’ (2 vols., 1831–33).