Eugène Louis Bouvier (9 April 1856 in

Saint-Laurent-en-Grandvaux Saint-Laurent-en-Grandvaux () is a commune in the Jura department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Jura department The following is a list of the 492 communes of the Jura ...

– 14 January 1944 in

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) was a French

entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

and

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. Bouvier was a professor at the

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Biography

Following graduation at the normal school in

Lons-le-Saunier Lons-le-Saunier () is a commune and capital of the Jura Department, eastern France. Geography The town is in the heart of the Revermont region, at the foot of the first plateau of the Jura massif. The Jura escarpment extends to the east a ...

, he taught classes in Clairvaux,

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, and

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. From 1882 to 1887, he served as a ''boursier'' at the

, where he studied with

Alphonse Milne-Edwards Alphonse Milne-Edwards (Paris, 13 October 1835 – Paris, 21 April 1900) was a French mammalogist, ornithologist, and carcinologist. He was English in origin, the son of Henri Milne-Edwards and grandson of Bryan Edwards, a Jamaican planter who ...

(1835–1900) and

Edmond Perrier Jean Octave Edmond Perrier (9 May 1844 – 31 July 1921) was a French zoologist born in Tulle. He is known for his studies of invertebrates (annelids and echinoderms). He was the brother of zoologist Rémy Perrier (1861–1936). Career On advice ...

(1844–1921). Together with Milne-Edwards, he worked on some of the

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s from the ''Travailleur'' and ''

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'' expeditions (1880–1883). In 1887, he earned his doctorate in

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with a dissertation involving

prosobranch Prosobranchia was a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Class (biology), subclass of sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. This taxon of gastropods dates back to the 1920s. It has however been proven to be polyphyly, polyphyletic (consis ...

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, ''Système nerveux, morphologie générale et classification des Gastéropodes prosobranches''. In 1889, he became an associate professor at the ''Ecole supérieure de pharmacie de Paris'', and in 1895, he attained a professorship of

natural history Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. A person who studies natural history is cal ...

(chair of "articulated animals"; starting in 1917, it was referred to as the chair of

entomology Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

) at the muséum. Bouvier maintained the chair of entomology until 1931, when he was succeeded by

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(1879–1965). His earlier studies dealt with evolution of various species, in particular

s and

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. Kellogg, Vernon. (1923). ''The Psychic Life of Insects by E. L. Bouvier''. ''

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''. New Series, Vol. 58, No. 1508. pp. 423–424.

Works

*''Recherches sur les affinités des Lithodes & des Lomis avec les Paguridés'' (1895) – Studies on the closer relationships of the king crab ''

Lithodes ''Lithodes'' is a genus of king crabs. Today there are about 30 recognized species, but others formerly included in this genus have been moved to ''Neolithodes'' and ''Paralomis''. They are found in oceans around the world, ranging from shallow t ...

'' and '' Lomis'' with

pagurid The Paguridae are a family of hermit crabs of the order Decapoda The Decapoda or decapods, from Ancient Greek δεκάς (''dekás''), meaning "ten", and πούς (''poús''), meaning "foot", is a large order of crustaceans within the clas ...

hermit crabs. *''Nouvelles observations sur les glaucothoés'' (1905) – New Observations on

Glaucothoe Crustaceans may pass through a number of larval and immature stages between hatching from their eggs and reaching their adult form. Each of the stages is separated by a moult, in which the hard exoskeleton is shed to allow the animal to grow. The ...

(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

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Saturniidae Saturniidae, members of which are commonly named the saturniids, is a family of Lepidoptera with an estimated 2,300 described species. The family contains some of the largest species of moths in the world. Notable members include the emperor m ...

. *''Décapodes marcheurs de la faune de France'' (1940) –

Decapoda The Decapoda or decapods, from Ancient Greek δεκάς (''dekás''), meaning "ten", and πούς (''poús''), meaning "foot", is a large order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, and includes crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, a ...

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 The vermiculated fishing owl (''Scotopelia bouvieri'', syn. Bubo bouvieri) is a species of owl in the family Strigidae. It is found within riverine forest in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic o ...

'', a fishing owl * '' Procambarus bouvieri'', a crayfish * ''

Messor bouvieri ''Messor'' is a genus of myrmicine ants with more than 100 species, all of which are harvester ants; the generic name comes from the Roman god of crops and harvest, Messor. The subterranean colonies tend to be found in open fields and near roa ...

'', an ant * ''

Peripatus bouvieri ''Peripatus bouvieri'' is a species of velvet worm in the Peripatidae family. This species has 28 or 29 pairs of legs. The type locality is in Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in Sout ...

'', a

velvet worm Onychophora (from , , "claws"; and , , "to carry"), commonly known as velvet worms (for their velvety texture and somewhat wormlike appearance) or more ambiguously as peripatus (after the first described genus, '' Peripatus''), is a phylum of e ...

References

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