Charles Dumont de Sainte-Croix

Charles Henri Frédéric Dumont de Sainte-Croix (Template:IPA; 27 April 1758 – 8 January 1830) was a French zoologist.

A lawyer by trade, he was also an enthusiastic amateur ornithologist.<ref name=Strese117>Stresemann, p. 117</ref> Between 1817 and 1818, he described a number of Javanese bird species discovered by Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour;<ref name=Strese117/> he also contributed articles on ornithology to the Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, edited and published from 1816 to 1830 by F. G. Levrault.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Dumont de Sainte-Croix's daughter, Clémence married René-Primevère Lesson, a surgeon and noted French naturalist.<ref>Stresemann, p. 138</ref>

His younger brother, André Dumont was elected to the Convention during the French Revolution.

He was honoured in 1813, in the naming of Dumontia, which is a genus of red algae belonging to the family Dumontiaceae.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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