Biography

Jean Louis Berlandier, French-born Mexican naturalist (Fort de L’Ecluse, France 1805 – Matamoros, Tamaulipas State 1851)

ACHIEVEMENTS

Authored works on anthropology, geography, history, meteorology and natural sciences

Collected animals and plants from Texas and Mexico

Described mammalian subspecies Puma yagouaroundi cacomitli (1859)

HONORS 

Berlandiera De Candolle 1836 (Asteraceae)

60 animal and plants species bears his name