Jean-Théodore Cocteau (1798–1838) was a French herpetologist, who was associated with Duméril, Cuvier, and Bibron, and corresponded with other workers in zoology around the world. Cocteau published a volume on skinks, Etudes sur les Scincoïdes, and named a number of new taxa. Cocteau is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of giant skink, Chioninia coctei, which is now extinct.
References
- A.L. (1838). "Nécrologie". Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuvierienne. 1838: 91–96.
- Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Cocteau", p. 56).