Charles des Moulins
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Charles des Moulins, full name Charles Robert Alexandre des Moulins (1798-1875) was a French naturalist, a botanist and malacologist.
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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:
Moulins also named various species of plants, including:
Taxa
Moulins named and described numerous speciesSpecies
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...
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Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
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- Pagodulina pagodulaPagodulina pagodulaPagodulina pagodula is a species of minute land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk, or micromollusk, in the family Orculidae, and the superfamily Pupilloidea.Pagodulina pagodula is the type species of the genus Pagodulina....
(des Moulins, 1830)
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 http://test.b-neat.org/bemon/?page=petymol.d.html, a marine gastropod
- Anodonta desmoulinsiana Locard, 1882 http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/arb/531-542/542.pdf, 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:
- Euphorbia miliiEuphorbia miliiEuphorbia milii is a woody, succulent species of Euphorbia native to Madagascar. The species name commemorates Baron Milius, once governor of Réunion, who introduced the species to France in 1821...
des Moulins, 1826 http://www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/3686798721/