Fernand Lataste


Fernand Lataste was a French zoologist and herpetologist born in Cadillac, Gironde.
From 1880 to 1884 he collected reptiles and amphibians in North Africa, publishing "Les missions scientifiques de Fernand Lataste en Afrique noire et au Maghreb". In 1885 he released "Étude de la faune des vertébrés de Barbarie", a standard work on animals of North Africa. Other publications by Lataste are:
In 1876 he was a founding member of the Société zoologique de France.

Taxonomy

Lataste was the taxonomic author of numerous genera and species, as an example, in 1880 he described the fat-tailed gerbil.
Along with Lataste's viper, a viper from Spain, Portugal and North Africa, his name is associated with the following: