Jacques Draparnaud Explained

Jacques Philippe Raymond Draparnaud
Birth Date:3 June 1772
Birth Place:Montpelier, France
Death Place:Montpelier, France
Nationality:French
Fields:malacology
Workplaces:Faculté de Médecine de Montpellier
Author Abbrev Zoo:Draparnaud

Jacques Philippe Raymond Draparnaud (3 June 1772, Montpellier – 2 February 1804)[1] was a French naturalist, malacologist and botanist. He is considered the father of malacology in France. He was professor of medicine and pathology at the Faculté de Médecine de Montpellier.

Draparnaud understood the breadth of the fauna he studied, as can be seen in a quote from him, in Histoire Naturelle des Mollusques, published in 1805:

Au reste, quoique j'aie décrit pour la France seule un bien plus grand nombre d'espèces que Muller et Schroeter n'ent ont fait connoître pour l'Europe entière, et trois fois autant que Geoffroy et Poiret n'en ont observé dans les environs de Paris, je suis convaincu qu'il reste encore en ce genre bien des découvertes à faire.

Translation:

As for the remainder, even though I have described for France a greater number of species than Müller and Schroeter made known for the whole of Europe, and three times as many as Geoffroy and Poiret observed around Paris, still I am convinced that there remain many more discoveries of this kind to be made.

Taxa

Draparnaud named ("described") a large number of new taxa of molluscs, including for example:

In addition, many other taxa of molluscs were named by others in honour of him, including:

Works

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Draparnaud (Jacques, Philippe, Raymond) », in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p.
  2. Web site: Genus: Draparnaldia taxonomy browser . AlgaeBase version 4.2 World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway . 2007-09-25 . Guiry, M.D. . Guiry, G.M. . 2007 .
  3. Web site: Genus: Draparnaldiopsis taxonomy browser . AlgaeBase version 4.2 World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway . 2007-09-25 . Guiry, M.D. . Guiry, G.M. . 2007 .