Frederic Cuvier

Frédéric Cuvier (June 28, 1773 - July 24, 1838) was a French zoologist. He was the younger brother of Georges Cuvier.

Frederic was the head keeper of the menagerie at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris from 1804 to 1838. The chair of comparative physiology was created for him at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in 1837. He was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society in 1835.

Cuvier was the author, with Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, of Histoire naturelle des mammifères (4 vols., 1819-1842).