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Philippe Bouchet (born 1953) is a French biologist whose primary scientific fields of study are malacology (the study of molluscs) and taxonomy. He works at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. He is also a Commissioner of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.
Philippe Bouchet | |
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Born | 1953 |
Nationality | French |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Malacology, taxonomy |
Institutions | Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle |
Bouchet published Taxonomy of the Gastropoda with the malacologist Jean-Pierre Rocroi in 2005, which laid out a new taxonomy of Gastropod molluscs.
He has named over 500 new taxa of mollusks, with numerous others being named in his honor.
Bouchet is a senior professor at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris and is head of the Malacology laboratory and the Taxonomy Collections Unit there.[1] He is also one of the Commissioners of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature and has been a member of the ICZN since 1990.[2]
Philippe Bouchet is co-editor of several volumes in the Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos series.[3][4]
In 2005, Bouchet was the senior author (editor) (with Jean-Pierre Rocroi) of a taxonomy of the Gastropoda, published in a paper entitled "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families" published in the journal Malacologia.[5]
Bouchet is the head of the 2004 Panglao Marine Biodiversity Project.[1]
By the end of 2010, Bouchet had described (alone or together with others) more than 500 new species, mainly gastropods.[6][7] More than 70 new species have been named in his honor.[7] Bouchet was honored with a new genus named after him by Houart & Héros in 2008: Bouchetia.[8] And in 2012, Bouchet was honored by having a monotypic family (and genus) of gastropods named after him: Bouchetispiridae (and Bouchetispira) by Kantor, Strong & Puillandre.[9]
In 2001 Bouchet was awarded the Marine Sciences Prize of the French Academy of Sciences for his work on the vertical migration of gastropod larvae.[2]
His publications as author or co-author are numerous. A few examples are listed below:
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