Alfred Duvaucel (1793, Évreux, Eure – 1825) was a French naturalist.
Duvaucel was the stepson of Georges Cuvier. In 1817 Cuvier sent him to India with Pierre-Médard Diard, to collect for the Paris Museum. They established a botanical garden in Chandannagar in 1818. In 1819 they spent some time collecting in Sumatra under the contract of Thomas Stamford Raffles. They were dismissed when Raffles discovered that most of the material was not sent to him but to the Museum in Paris. Duvaucel died in Madras.
He is commemorated in the names of a number of animals, including the Barasingha Cervus duvaucelii, Duvaucels Gecko Hoplodactylus duvaucelii, the River Lapwing Vanellus duvaucelii and the Scarlet-rumped Trogon Harpactes duvaucelii.
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