Arthur René Jean Baptiste Bavay (29 April 1840 in Lamballe – 1923) was a French

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and malacologist.

Biography

Trained as a naval pharmacist, Bavay's scientific contributions included investigations involving the flora and fauna of

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, migratory studies of

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s crossing the

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and research of the malacological families Pectinidae and Marginellidae. With malacologist Philippe Dautzenberg, he conducted studies of terrestrial and freshwater mollusks of the Far East.BioStor
A Review of the Marginellidae Described by Bavay, 1903-1922. He published nearly 70 articles on mollusks, and after his retirement as a pharmacist, he devoted his energies entirely to malacological research. He is credited with providing descriptions of 39 new species and several infraspecific taxa within the family Marginellidae. His name is associated with the

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genus '' Bavayia'', named after Bavay by Jean Roux in 1913, as well as "Bavay's keeled skink" ('' Tropidophorus baviensis''), a species named after Mt. Ba Vi by René Léon Bourret in 1939. Other species that bear his name are: "Bavay's giant gecko" ('' Rhacodactylus chahoua'') and "Bavay's gecko" (''

Eurydactylodes vieillardi ''Eurydactylodes vieillardi'', sometimes known commonly as Bavay's gecko or Vieillard's chameleon gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Diplodactylidae. The species is endemic to Grande Terre in New Caledonia. www.reptile-database.org. ...

'').

Selected publications

* ''Etude sur deux plantes de la Nouvelle-Calédonie'', 1869. tudy on two plants of New Caledonia (in French). * ''Catalogue des reptiles de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et description d'espèces nouvelles'', 1872. atalog of reptiles from New Caledonia and the description of new species * ''Note sur l'hylodes martinicensis et ses métamorphoses'', 1872. Hylodes martinicensis'' and its metamorphosis">Eleutherodactylus martinicensis">Hylodes martinicensis'' and its metamorphosis * ''Récolte des mollusques: conseils aux voyageurs'', 1895. ollecting Mollusks: advice for travelers * ''Diagnoses de coquilles nouvelles de l'Indo-Chine'', 1900. (with Philippe Dautzenberg). iagnoses of new seashells from Indochina">seashell.html" ;"title="iagnoses of new seashell">iagnoses of new seashells from Indochina]. * ''Descriptions de quelques nouvelles espèces du Genre Pecten'', 1904. [Descriptions of some new species of the genus ''Pecten (bivalve), Pecten'' ]. * ''Les lacs des hauts plateaux de l'Amérique du Sud'', 1906. (with Maurice Neveu-Lemaire & Edward Asahel Birge). he lakes of the upper plateaus in South America">South_America.html" ;"title="he lakes of the upper plateaus in South America">he lakes of the upper plateaus in South America * ''Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles récoltés par le Dr Neveu-Lemaire (Mission de Créqui-Montfort et Sénéchal de la Grange en Amérique du Sud)'', 1904. * ''Les lamellibranches de l'expédition du Siboga'', 1912. (with Philippe Dautzenberg). [ Lamellibranchs from the Siboga Expedition].Google Search
(publications).

References

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