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{{Short description|French naturalist and doctor}}
[[Image:Alfred Moquin-Tandon.jpg|thumb|right|Alfred Moquin-Tandon]]
'''Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon''' (7 May 1804 – 15 April 1863) was a French [[Natural history|naturalist]] and doctor.

Moquin-Tandon was professor of [[zoology]] at [[Marseille]] from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of [[botany]] and director of the [[botanical garden]]s at [[Toulouse]].  In 1850, he was sent by the French government to [[Corsica]] to study the island's flora.  In 1853, he moved to Paris, later becoming director of the [[Jardin des Plantes]] and the [[Académie des Sciences]].

His books included the ornithology section of ''L'Histoire Naturelle des Iles Canaries'' (1835–44), co-authored with [[Philip Barker Webb]] and [[Sabin Berthelot]].

One of his specialities was the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Amaranthaceae]] (The [[Amaranth]] family).

Several genera of plants have been named in his honour, including in 1838, [[DC.]] published ''[[Moquinia]]'', a [[genus]] of flowering plants from Brazil, in the [[Moquinieae|''Moquinia'' tribe]] within the [[Asteraceae|sunflower family]].<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7156#page/27/mode/1up Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de. 1838. Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis, sive, Enumeratio contracta ordinum generum specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarium, juxta methodi naturalis, normas digesta 7(1): 22-24] in Latin</ref> Then in 1954, Simone Balle published ''[[Moquiniella]]'' a genus of [[flowering plant]]s from Africa, belonging to the family [[Loranthaceae]].<ref>{{cite web |title=''Moquiniella'' Balle {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:25282-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=18 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> Lastly in 2013, botanists (Cabrera) G.Sancho published ''[[Moquiniastrum]]'', a genus of [[flowering plant]]s from South America, belonging to the family [[Asteraceae]].<ref>{{cite web |title=''Moquiniastrum'' (Cabrera) G.Sancho {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77134642-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=25 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

{{Botanist|Moq.|Moquin-Tandon, Christian Horace Benedict Alfred}}

== Bibliography ==
[[File:Frédol, Alfred – Monde de la mer, 1865 – BEIC 11969788.jpg|thumb|''Monde de la mer, 1865'']]
* [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/128816#page/23/mode/1up Ornithologie Canarienne] in Webb & Berthelot's ''L'Histoire Naturelle des Iles Canaries'' (1835–44)
* Moquin-Tandon A. (1855–1856). ''Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de France, contenant des études générales sur leur anatomie et leur physiologie et la description particulière des genres, des espèces et des variétés''. (4-5), 368 pp., J.-B. Baillière, Paris.
** [https://archive.org/details/histoirenaturell01moqu volume 1]
** [https://archive.org/details/histoirenaturell02moqu volume 2]
* {{Cite book|title=Monde de la mer|volume=|publisher=Louis Hachette|location=Paris|year=1865|language=fr|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=11969788}}

== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/moquin-tandon-horace.html Short biography]
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Alfred Moquin-Tandon}}

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