Philippe Bouchet

Philippe Bouchet
Philippe Bouchet in May, 2005
Born 1953
Residence France
Nationality French
Scientific career
Fields Malacology, taxonomy
Institutions Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle

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, 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: 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. 1 2 "Pangalao Marine Biodiversity Project website". Retrieved 6 December 2010.
  2. 1 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. 1 2 "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.
  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: 246–255. doi:10.1093/mollus/eys007.
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