Recherches sur l'évolution des lygodactyles, lézards Afro-Malgaches actuels.

Rabat, l'Institut Scientifique Chérifien, 1964. 4to (27.0 x 20.9 cm). 132 pp.; 12 plates, 30 text figures. Original printed wrappers. = A detailed study with emphasis on taxonomically important characters, and in particular on the phylogeny and zoogeography of this group of geckos. Well-illustrated. The close-up photos of heads, eyes, and toes are excellent. The author, Georges Michel Auguste Henri Pasteur (1930-2015) "is considered as the father of the systematic of the genus Lygodactylus but also at the origin of the development of North African herpetology, particularly in Morocco. He deposited a large collection of geckos at the Paris Natural History Museum (MNHN-RA). Georges was head of the Ecological Genetics Laboratory at EPHE, Montpellier (France) and also Research Associate at the Reptiles and Amphibians Laboratory at MNHN, Paris. His main working areas were North Africa and Madagascar, but also East Africa and Canary Islands" (Ineich). Large date-stamp on the front wrapper, wrappers toned in the margins, but otherwise a very good, internally clean copy. Ineich, I. (2016) Georges Pasteur (1930-2015), Herpetologist, Geneticist, and Evolutionary Biologist. Herpetological Review 47: 523-527.