Maurice A. F. Breistroffer

French botanist, zoologist and geologist (1910–1986).

Maurice Andrè Frantz Breistroffer (15 July 1910, Paris – 17 February 1986, Grenoble) was a French paleontologist and botanist. He worked as a curator at the natural history museum in Grenoble. He was recognized as a leading authority in the study of ammonites, of which, he circumscribed numerous taxa; e.g. the families Oosterellidae (1940) and Leymeriellidae (1951). As a botanist, he conducted investigations of plants native to southeastern France. He described Scilla litardierei (amethyst meadow squill) and dozens of other botanical species. Taxa with the specific epithet of breistrofferi com