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Jean René Constant Quoy
Jean René Constant Quoy (November 10, 1790 - July 4, 1869) was a French zoologist.
Along with Joseph Paul Gaimard he served as naturalist aboard La Coquille under Louis Isidore Duperrey during its circumnavigation of the globe (1822-25), and the Astrolabe (1826-1829) under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville.
The following genera or species were named in his honor :
- Quoya Labbé, 1934
- Quoyia Gray, 1839
- Terebra quoygaimardi Cernohorsky, 1976
- Pilumnus quoyi H. Milne-Edwards, 1834
- Ischnochiton quoyanus J. Thiele, 1910
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