Maurice Gomont

Maurice-Augustin Gomont (born 1839, in Rouen – died 1909, in Rouen) was a French phycologist.^[1]

Works

Gomont, M (1892). "Monographie des Oscillariées (Nostocacées Homocystées). Deuxième partie. - Lyngbyées". Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique. 7 (16).

Gomontia, which is a genus of green algae, in the family Gomontiaceae and also Gomontiellaceae, which is a family of cyanobacteria, were both named in 1888 by botanists Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet and Charles Henri Marie Flahault after Maurice Gomont.^[2]
Gomontiellaceae are a family of cyanobacteria, with Gomontiella, a species named in 1901.^[3]

The standard author abbreviation Gomont is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[4]

^ M. éD. Bornet (1909) Maurice-Augustin Gomont (1839–1909), Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France, 56:6, 440–449, doi:10.1080/00378941.1909.10832078
^ Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M. (2007). "Genus: Gomontia taxonomy browser". AlgaeBase version 4.2 World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Retrieved 25 September 2007.
^ "Gomontiellaceae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
^ International Plant Names Index. Gomont.

Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved 27 January 2022.

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