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