Achilles Valenciennes (1794–1865)

French zoologist. Became an assistant naturalist at the Muséum d’histoire naturelle in Paris in 1812. Assisted Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Lamarck, Cuvier, and Humboldt. Collaborated with Cuvier on his Histoire naturelle des poissons (1828–49). Professor of annelids, molluscs, and zoophytes, Muséum d’histoire naturelle, 1832. Admitted to the Paris Académie des sciences, 1844.