Achille Raffray

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Achille Marie Jacques Raffray (17 October 1844 – 25 September 1923) was a French diplomat, traveller, zoologist and entomologist. He wrote: (Partial list)

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Raffray's bandicoot, Peroryctes raffrayana, was named for him by the Parisian zoologist Henri Milne-Edwards. A species of African snake, Scaphiophis raffreyi, was named in his honor by French herpetologist Marie Firmin Bocourt, while a species of short-tailed snake, Brachyorrhos raffreyi from Ternate in North Maluku Province, Indonesia, was also named for Raffray, by the French herpetologist, ichthyologist and paleontologist Henri-Émile Sauvage

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