Gustave Cotteau

Gustave Honoré Cotteau (7 December 1818, Auxerre – 10 August 1894, Paris) was a French judge, naturalist and paleontologist.

He earned his law degree in 1840 and in 1846 was named a deputy judge in Auxerre.

[2] He is best known for his study of living and fossil echinoids (sea urchins), of which, he amassed a collection of more than 500 different species.

[2] He was the author of many works associated with Echinoidea, and circumscribed numerous echinoid taxa, such as the fossil genera Asterocidaris and Cidaropsis.

[2] He was an editor of Paléontologie française, a multi-volume series on French paleontology begun by Alcide d'Orbigny in 1840.