Édouard Chevreux (10 November 1846, in
Paris
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– 10 January 1931, in
Bône
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) was a French
carcinologist
A carcinologist is a scientist who studies crustaceans or is otherwise involved in carcinology (the science of crustaceans).
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Chevreux specialised in the study of
Amphipoda
Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods range in size from and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There are more than 9,900 amphipod species so far desc ...
, an order of
malacostraca
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n
crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean gro ...
s. With
Jean-Louis Fage Jean-Louis Fage (30 September 1883, in Limoges – 1964, in Dijon) was a French marine biologist and arachnologist.
A native of Limoges, he studied biology at the Sorbonne and in the laboratory at Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue. In 1906 he obtained his doc ...
(1883–1964), he was co-author of the section on "Amphipodes" in the ''Faune de France''.
The genera ''
Chevreuxius'' and ''
Chevreuxiella'' are named after him, as are numerous
crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean gro ...
species.
Selected writings
* ''Sur le Gammarus berilloni catta''
* ''Voyage de la goëlette "Melita" aux Canaries et au Sénégal, 1889–1890'', (1891) – Voyage of the schooner "Melita" to the
Canary Islands
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and
Senegal
Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤠(Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣� ...
, 1889–1890.
* ''Amphipodes provenant des campagnes de l'Hirondelle (1885–1888)'', (1900) – Amphipods from the campaigns of the "Hirondelle" (1885–1888).
* ''Paracyphocaris praedator; type d'un nouveau genre de Lysianassidae'', (1905) – "''Paracyphocaris praedator''"; the type of a new genus of
Lysianassidae.
* ''Amphipodes'', (1906) – Amphipods
* ''Crustacés amphipodes'', (1906) – Amphipod crustaceans
* ''Orchomenella lobata: nouvelle espèce d'amphipode des régions arctiques'', (1907) – "Orchomenella lobata", a new species of amphipod from the
Arctic region
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s.
* ''Campagnes de la Melita; les amphipodes d'Algérie et de Tunisie'', (1910) – Campaigns of "Melita"; amphipods from a voyage to
Algeria
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* ''Amphipodes provenant des campagnes scientifiques du prince Albert Ier de Monaco'' – Amphipods from scientific cruises of
Prince Albert I of Monaco.
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French carcinologists
French zoologists
1846 births
1931 deaths
Scientists from Paris