| Albert Jean Baptiste Marie Vayssière | |
| Birth Date: | 8 July 1854 |
| Birth Place: | Avignon, France |
| Death Place: | Marseille, France |
| Nationality: | French |
| Fields: | malacology, entomology |
| Workplaces: | Faculté des Sciences at Marseille, Muséum d'histoire naturelle at Marseille |
| Known For: | Work on opisthobranch gastropods |
Albert Jean Baptiste Marie Vayssière (8 July 1854, Avignon - 13 January 1942, Marseille) was a French scientist, a biologist, specifically a malacologist and entomologist, i.e. someone who studies mollusks, and insects. Within the Mollusca, Vayssière specialized in sea slugs and bubble snails, i.e. marine opisthobranch gastropods. He made significant contributions towards a better understanding of the general biology, phylogenetic relationships, biogeography and ecological distribution of the group.[1]
From 1873 to 1883, Vayssière served as a préparateur to the Faculté des Sciences at Marseille, where afterwards he was maître de conférences (lecturer).[2] He later served as a professor of zoology, and in 1915 he was appointed director of the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Marseille.[3]
Vayssière was also interested in entomology, in particular, the field of agricultural entomology.[1]
Vayssière also made contributions to the publications Expéditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883 (scientific editors, Alphonse Milne-Edwards and Edmond Perrier) and Expédition antarctique française 1903-1905 (directors, Jean-Baptiste Charcot and Louis Joubin).[3]