Alfred Duvaucel [SEP] place of birth
Alfred Duvaucel
Alfred Duvaucel (1793, Évreux, Eure – 1824, Madras, India) was a French naturalist and explorer. He was the stepson of Georges Cuvier.
Journeys in South and Southeast Asia.
In December 1817, Duvaucel left France for British India and arrived in Calcutta in May 1818, where he met Pierre-Médard Diard. Together, they moved to Chandernagore, then a trading post of the French East India Company, and started collecting animals and plants for the Paris Museum of Natural History.
living in scrub and forest, and along the shoreline of the islands to which it is presently confined. Females do not lay eggs but give birth to live young. 
Etymology.
The species "H. duvaucelii" was erroneously named after Alfred Duvaucel, a French naturalist who explored India. The museum specimens taken to Europe were credited to him, and only later were the animals found to have come from New Zealand.
Conservation efforts.
Duvaucel's gecko was reintroduced to the mainland of New Zealand at the end