Édouard Chevreux (10 November 1846, in
Paris
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– 10 January 1931, in
Bône
Annaba ( ar, عنّابة, "Place of the Jujubes"; ber, Aânavaen), formerly known as Bon, Bona and Bône, is a seaport city in the northeastern corner of Algeria, close to the border with Tunisia. Annaba is near the small Seybouse River ...
) was a French
carcinologist
A carcinologist is a scientist who studies crustaceans or is otherwise involved in carcinology
Carcinology is a branch of zoology that consists of the study of crustaceans, a group of arthropods that includes lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, ...
.
Chevreux specialised in the study of
Amphipoda, an order of
malacostraca
Malacostraca (from New Latin; ) is the largest of the six classes of crustaceans, containing about 40,000 living species, divided among 16 orders. Its members, the malacostracans, display a great diversity of body forms and include crabs, l ...
n
crustacean
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s. With
Jean-Louis Fage (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 group can ...
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 and
Senegal
Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤠(Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤠...
, 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
Lysianassidae is a family of marine amphipods, containing the following genera:
*'' Acontiostoma'' Stebbing, 1888
*'' Alibrotus'' Milne-Edwards, 1840
*'' Allogaussia'' Schellenberg, 1926
*'' Ambasia'' Boeck, 1871
*'' Ambasiella'' Schellenberg, 1 ...
.
* ''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
Albert I (Albert Honoré Charles Grimaldi; 13 November 1848 – 26 June 1922) was Prince of Monaco from 10 September 1889 until his death. He devoted much of his life to oceanography, exploration and science. Alongside his expeditions, Albert ...
.
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References
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French carcinologists
French zoologists
1846 births
1931 deaths
Scientists from Paris