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[[File:Erpétologie Générale plate 89.jpg|thumb|<center>Plate 89 from ''Erpétologie Générale'']]

'''Gabriel Bibron''' (Oct. 20, 1805–March 27, 1848) was a [[France|French]] [[zoologist]], and [[Herpetology|herpetologist]]. He was born in [[Paris]]. Son of an employee of the [[Museum national d'histoire naturelle]], he had a good foundation in natural history and was hired to collect vertebrates in [[Italy]] and [[Sicily]].

He classified a large number of [[reptile]] species with [[André Marie Constant Duméril]], whom he had met in 1832. Dumeril was interested mainly in the relations between genera, and he left to Bibron the task of describing the species. Working together they produced the ''Erpétologie Générale'', a comprehensive account of the [[reptiles]], published in ten volumes from 1834 to 1854.<ref>[[Karl Patterson Schmidt|Schmidt, K.P.]] and D.D. Davis. 1941. ''Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada''. G.P. Putnam's Sons. New York. p. 12.</ref>