Georges Jean-Jacques Petit

b. 4 October 1892; d. -19??
 

Biographical Background

He started working on mammals in 1914, but his career was interrupted by World War I.  Beginning in 1921 he started working on freshwater fishes, particularly from Africa.  In 1947 he was named Director of the Laboratoire Arago.  He entered as an assistant of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris and in 1932 he became its deputy director.  He ended his career as Director of the marine biological stations in Banyuls-sur-mer and Villefranche-sur-mer.
 

Contributions to Hypogean Fish Research

He published six papers on cave fishes including the one describing Typhleotris madagascariensis (Petit 1933).

Picture from Volume Jubilaire dédiéma Georges Petit. Banyuls-sur-Mer, France: Laboratoire Arago (1964). No credit given.