Career
From 1880 to 1884 he collected reptiles and amphibians in North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco), publishing "Les missions scientifiques de Fernand Lataste en Afrique noire et au Maghreb". In 1885 he released "Étude de la faune des vertébrés de Barbarie", a standard work on animals of North Africa. Other publications by Lataste are:
Essai d"une faune herpétologique de la Gironde, 1876 - Essay on the herpetological fauna of Gironde.
Étude sur le discoglosse, 1879 - Study of Discoglossus.