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Eugène Louis Bouvier (9 April 1856 in Saint-Laurent-en-Grandvaux – 14 January 1944 in Paris) was a French entomologist and carcinologist. Bouvier was a professor at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.

Biography

Following graduation at the normal school in Lons-le-Saunier, he taught classes in Clairvaux, Versailles, Saint-Cloud, and Villefranche-sur-Saône. From 1882 to 1887, he served as a boursier at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, where he studied with Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835–1900) and Edmond Perrier (1844–1921). Together with Milne-Edwards, he worked on some of the crustaceans from the Travailleur and Talisman expeditions (1880–1883).

Works

  • Recherches sur les affinités des Lithodes & des Lomis avec les Paguridés (1895) – Studies on the closer relationships of the king crab Lithodes and Lomis with pagurid hermit crabs.
  • Nouvelles observations sur les glaucothoés (1905) – New Observations on Glaucothoe (larvae).
  • [Vie psychique des insectes] (1918) – The Psychic Life of Insects (translated, 1922).
  • Habitudes et Métamorphoses des insectes (1919) – Behavior and Metamorphosis of Insects.
  • Le Communisme chez les insectes (1926) – Communism Among Insects.
  • Monographie des lépidoptères saturnides (1934) – Monograph of Lepidoptera, Saturniidae.
  • Décapodes marcheurs de la faune de France (1940) – Decapoda of France.

Legacy

Taxa named after Bouvier include:

  • Procambarus bouvieri, a crayfish
  • Hemidactylus bouvieri, a leaf-toed gecko
  • Rissoina bouvieri, a sea snail
  • Eumetula bouvieri, a sea snail
  • Procolobus bouvieri, a monkey
  • Cyphocaris bouvieri, an amphipod
  • Cinnyris bouvieri, a sunbird
  • Scotopelia bouvieri, a fishing owl
  • Procambarus bouvieri, a crayfish
  • Messor bouvieri, an ant
  • Peripatus bouvieri, a velvet worm

See also

  • List of Chairs of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

References

  • Archives Department of the Pasteur Institute (biography)