Philippe Bouchet Explained
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.
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.
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.[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.
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.[5] [6] More than 70 new species have been named in his honor. Bouchet was honored with a new genus named after him by Houart & Héros in 2008: Bouchetia.[7] 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.[8]
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.
- 10.1016/0198-0149(92)90103-Z . 39 . 2. The Mediterranean deep-sea fauna: pseudopopulations of Atlantic species? . 1992 . Deep Sea Research Part A. Oceanographic Research Papers . 169–184 . Bouchet Philippe, Taviani Marco. 1992DSRA...39..169B .
- P. Bouchet, The magnitude of marine biodiversity, VliZ, 2006 (also as .pdf)
- Bouchet P. & Mermet G. (photographer) (2008). Shells 168 pp.,
- 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
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Pangalao Marine Biodiversity Project website . 6 December 2010.
- Web site: ICZN website . 6 December 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110608201500/http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/iczn/Commissioners_Bouchet.html . 8 June 2011 .
- Web site: Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos volume 22 - Scientific Publications of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris . 2023-03-31 . sciencepress.mnhn.fr.
- Web site: Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos volume 29 - Scientific Publications of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris . 2023-03-31 . sciencepress.mnhn.fr.
- Web site: ICZN Professor Philippe Bouchet . 1 August 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120320025745/http://iczn.org/content/professor-philippe-bouchet . 20 March 2012 .
- Web site: Taxon list . Marinespecies.org . 1 August 2012 .
- Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Fiji and Tonga, Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle . Houart Roland . Heros Virginie . Résultats des Campagnes Musorstom . 1243-4442 . 2008 . 196 . 437–480 . fr . 9 November 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160131072034/http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=21934509 . 31 January 2016 .
- 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 . 10.1093/mollus/eys007. free .
