Philippe Bouchet

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.

For the science-fiction illustrator, see Philippe Bouchet (illustrator).

Philippe Bouchet
Philippe Bouchet in May, 2005
Born1953
NationalityFrench
Scientific career
FieldsMalacology, taxonomy
InstitutionsMuséum 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, and numerous taxa have been named in his honor.

Professional achievements

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.

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.[3]

Bouchet is the head of the 2004 Panglao Marine Biodiversity Project.[1]

Taxa named, and taxa named in his honor

By the end of 2010, Bouchet had described (alone or together with others) more than 500 new species, mainly gastropods.[4][5] More than 70 new species have been named in his honor.[5] Bouchet was honored with a new genus named after him by Houart & Héros in 2008: Bouchetia.[6] 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.[7]

Awards

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]

Publications

His publications as author or co-author are numerous. A few examples are listed below:

  • P. Bouchet, Revision of the Northeast Atlantic Bathyal and Abyssal Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda); J. Mollus. Stud. (1980) 46 (Supplement 8): 1-119. doi:10.1093/mollus/46.Supplement_8.1
  • Bouchet Philippe, Taviani Marco (1992). "The Mediterranean deep-sea fauna: pseudopopulations of Atlantic species?". Deep Sea Research Part A. Oceanographic Research Papers. 39 (2): 169–184. doi:10.1016/0198-0149(92)90103-Z.
  • P. Bouchet , The magnitude of marine biodiversity, VliZ, 2006 (also as .pdf)
  • Bouchet P. & Mermet G. (photographer) (2008). Shells 168 pp., ISBN 978-0-7892-0989-4
  • Philippe Bouchet, Hervé Le Guyader et Olivier Pascal, "Des voyages de Cook à l’expédition Santo 2006 : un renouveau des explorations naturalistes des îles du Pacifique", Journal de la Société des Océanistes, 126–127 | Année 2008

References
  1. "Pangalao Marine Biodiversity Project website". Retrieved 6 December 2010.
  2. "ICZN website". Archived from the original on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
  3. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  4. "ICZN Professor Philippe Bouchet". Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  5. "Taxon list". Marinespecies.org. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  6. Houart Roland, Heros Virginie (2008). Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Fiji and Tonga, Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (in French). 196. pp. 437–480. ISSN 1243-4442. Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2010.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  7. Kantor Y.I., Strong E.E., Puillandre N. (2012). "A new lineage of Conoidea (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) revealed by morphological and molecular data". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 78 (3): 246–255. doi:10.1093/mollus/eys007.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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