Charles des Moulins

Charles Des Moulins, full name Charles Robert Alexandre Des Moulins (13 March 1798 – 23 December 1875)[1] was a French naturalist, a botanist and malacologist.

He was a member of several learned societies, including the Société linnéenne de Bordeaux, of which he served as its president in 1826.[2]

Taxa

Moulins named and described numerous species of snails, for example:

In turn, in recognition of his services to malacology, a number of species of mollusks were named after him. These latter species included both fossil and recent, both bivalves and gastropods and were mainly non-marine species, however, a few were marine species. Examples as follows:

  • Pisania desmoulinsi Montrouzier, 1864 , a marine gastropod
  • Anodonta desmoulinsiana Locard, 1882 , a freshwater bivalve
  • Nerita desmoulinsiana Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1933, a marine gastropod
  • Vertigo moulinsiana Dupuy, 1849, a terrestrial gastropod

Moulins also named various species of plants, including:

The botanical genus Moulinsia (family Sapindaceae) was named in his honor by Jacques Cambessèdes.[3][4]

Bibliography

References
  1. Eugene V. Coan, Alan R. Kabat & Richard E. Petit, 2009. 2,400 years of malacology, 6th ed. Archived 2018-10-05 at the Wayback Machine February 15, 2009, 830 pp. + 32 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society.
  2. Sociétés savantes de France biography in French
  3. BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  4. Moulinsia Cambess. Trpoicos.org
  5. IPNI.  Des Moul.
  6. Comparaison des départements de la Gironde et de la Dordogne... HathiTrust Digital Library
  7. Quelques réflexions sur la doctrine scientifique dite Darwinisme OCLC WorldCat


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