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.
[1] Cocteau is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of giant skink, Chioninia coctei, which is now extinct.
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