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Auguste Henri André Duméril (30 November 1812 – 12 November 1870) was a French zoologist. He was professor of Herpetology and Ichthyology at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris from 1857. His father André Marie Constant Duméril was also a zoologist. In 1869 he was elected as a member of the Académie des sciences.

Duméril studied at the University of Paris, and in 1844 became an associate professor of comparative physiology at the university. In 1851 with his father he published Catalogue méthodique de la collection des Reptiles, although the younger Duméril was its sole author. With zoologist Marie Firmin Bocourt (1819–1904), he collaborated on a study of reptiles and amphibians called Etudes sur les reptiles et les batraciens, which is considered to be Duméril's best written work in the field of herpetology. This treatise was published with Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale, which was the result of Bocourt's scientific expedition to Mexico and Central America from 1864 to 1866. Auguste Duméril died in 1870 during the Siege of Paris, and Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale was continued by Bocourt, Léon Vaillant (1834–1914) and other scientists.

From 1865 to 1870 Duméril created a two-volume ichthyological study titled Histoire naturelle des poissons, ou Ichtyologie générale, which complemented the works of Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) and Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865), by describing species not covered by the two famous naturalists. Duméril also published an important treatise on the axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum).

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