Charles Des Moulins, full name Charles Robert Alexandre Des Moulins (13 March 1798 – 23 December 1875) was a French naturalist, a botanist and malacologist.
He was a member of several learned societies, including the American Philosophical Society, which elected him an international Member in 1861, and the Société linnéenne de Bordeaux, for which he served as president in 1826.
Taxa
Moulins named and described numerous species of snails, for example:
- Pagodulina pagodula (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 , 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:
- Euphorbia milii Des Moulins, 1826
The botanical genus Moulinsia (family Sapindaceae) was named in his honor by Jacques Cambessèdes.
The standard author abbreviation Des Moul. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.Bibliography
- 1831: Etudes s. l. Echinides
- 1840: Catalogue raisonné des plantes qui croissent spontanément dans le département de la Dordogne. distribuées d'après le synopsis florae Germanicae et Helveticae du docteur G.D.J. Koch. Bordeaux : Th. Lafargue.
- 1859: Comparaison des départements de la Gironde et de la Dordogne sous le rapport de leur végétation spontanée et de leurs cultures.
- 1869: Quelques réflexions sur la doctrine scientifique dite Darwinisme.
References
- 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. . American Malacological Society.
- "Charles Desmoulins". American Philosophical Society Member History Database. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- Sociétés savantes de France biography in French
- BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
- Moulinsia Cambess. Trpoicos.org
- International Plant Names Index. Des Moul.
- Comparaison des départements de la Gironde et de la Dordogne... HathiTrust Digital Library
- Quelques réflexions sur la doctrine scientifique dite Darwinisme OCLC WorldCat
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