Jean Louis Florent Polydore Roux

Jean Louis Florent Polydore Roux (27 July 1792, Marseille −12 April 1833 , Bombay) was a French painter and naturalist.

Jean-Louis-Florent-Polydore Roux was, from his childhood, interested in natural history and had a large insect collection.

He also published on molluscs Iconographie conchyliologique, 1828.Marine painting was another of his occupations and a Roux family concern.

In 1831 he joined Charles von Hügel, who was travelling for the Austrian government, on an excursion to Egypt and from there in 1832 to Bombay, where he later died of plague.

[1] It is also likely that the specific name of the longstriped blenny (Parablennius rouxi) honours Roux.