Louis Joubin Explained

Louis Marie Adolphe Olivier Édouard Joubin (27 February 1861 in Épinal - 24 April 1935 in Paris)^[1] was a professor at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris. He published works on nemerteans, chaetognatha, cephalopods, and other molluscs.^[2]

He served as an assistant to Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers, subsequently becoming director of the laboratories at Banyuls-sur-Mer (1882) and Roscoff (1884). Later on, he became an instructor at the University of Rennes,^[3] and in 1903 succeeded Edmond Perrier as chaire des mollusques, des vers et des zoophytes at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (from 1917 onward his title was chaire des mollusques).^[4] In 1906 he was chosen by Albert I, Prince of Monaco to be in charge of instruction at the Institut océanographique.^[3]

In 1905 he was named president of the Société zoologique de France. In 1920 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences.^[3]

Joubin's squid (Joubiniteuthis portieri) is named for him,^[5] as is Anoxycalyx joubini, a hexactinellid sponge whose lifespan is purportedly 10,000 years.^[6]

Written works

Les Némertiens, 1894 - Nemerteans.
Contribution à l'étude des Céphalopodes de l'Atlantique Nord, 1895 - Contributions to the study of cephalopods of the North Atlantic.
Expédition antarctique française (1903-1905) : commandée par le Dr. Jean Charcot. Science naturelles: documents scientifiques. - French Antarctic Expedition (1903–05) : commanded by Jean Baptiste Charcot, Natural science: scientific documents of the expedition.
Deuxième expédition antarctique française (1908-1910) / Sciences naturelles: documents scientifiques. - Second French Antarctic Expedition (1908–10) / Natural sciences: scientific documents of the expedition.
La vie dans les océans, 1912 - Life in the oceans.
Chétognathes provenant des campagnes des yachts Hirondelle et Princesse-Alice, 1885-1910 (with Louis Germain), 1916 - Chaetognatha from campaigns of the yachts Hirondelle and Princesse-Alice, 1885-1910.
Le fond de la mer, 1920 - The bottom of the sea.
Les métamorphoses des animaux marins, 1926 - Metamorphosis of marine animals.
Éléments de biologie marine, 1928 - Elements of marine biology.
Faune ichthyologique de l'Atlantique nord, 1929 - Ichthyological fauna of the North Atlantic.
"Cephalopods from the scientific expeditions of Prince Albert I of Monaco"; published in 1995 into English.^[7] ^[8]