Roger Bour

Roger Bour (1947–2020), French herpetologist and palaeontologist

• Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Reptiles & Amphibians, Paris, France

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 8 taxon names authored by Roger Bour

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1994

• Mourer-Chauviré, C., Bour, R., Moutou, F. & Ribes, S. 1994. Mascarenotus nov. gen. (Aves, Strigiformes), genre endémique éteint des Mascareignes et M. grucheti n. sp., espèce éteinte de la Réunion. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris 2(318): 1699–1706. Full article (PDF available for download.) Reference page. 

1999

• Mourer-Chauviré, C., Bour, R., Ribes, S. & Moutou, F. 1999. The avifauna of Réunion Island (Mascarene Islands) at the time of the arrival of the first Europeans. In Olson, S.L. (ed) Avian paleontology at the close of the 20th century: proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C., 4–7 June 1996. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 89: 1–38. DOI: 10.5479/si.00810266.89.1 ResearchGate BHL Reference page. 

2008

• Arnold, E.N. & Bour, R. 2008. A new Nactus gecko (Gekkonidae) and a new Leiolopisma skink (Scincidae) from La Réunion, Indian Ocean, based on recent fossil remains and ancient DNA sequence. Zootaxa 1705: 40–50. PDF

2010

• Dubois, A. & Bour, R. 2010. The nomenclatural status of the nomina of amphibians and reptiles created by Garsault (1764), with a parsimonious solution to an old nomenclatural problem regarding the genus Bufo (Amphibia, Anura), comments on the taxonomy of this genus, and comments on some nomina created by Laurenti (1768). Zootaxa 2447: 001–052. Preview. Reference page. 

2014

• Dubois, A., Nemésio, A. & Bour, R. 2014. Primary, secondary and tertiary syntypes and virtual lectotype designation in zoological nomenclature, with comments on the recent designation of a lectotype for Elephas maximus Linnaeus, 1758. Bionomina 7: 45–64. Preview Reference page.