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Roger Bour was predominantly herpetologist specialized on subfossil turtles and lizards of the Mascarenes. But he was also involved in avian paleontology. He described the Reunion Rail Dryolimnas augusti, he described the owl genus Mascarenotus, the owl species Otus grucheti, he transferred Mascarenachen kervazoi Cowles, 1994 to the genus Alopochen, he transferred the Reunion Ibis to the genus Threskiornis and he transferred Ardea Duboisi to the genus Nycticorax (all in collaboration with Cécile Mourer-Chauviré).

Roger Bour died on March 7, 2020, aged 72.

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