Dominique Dupuy (16 May 1812, Lectoure – 23 September 1885) was a French

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and malacologist.Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2011)
''2,400 years of malacology, 8th ed.''
, 936 pp. + 42 pp. nnex of Collations American Malacological Society Abbé Dominique Dupuy was a professor of natural history in

Auch Auch (; oc, label= Gascon, Aush ) is a commune in southwestern France. Located in the region of Occitanie, it is the capital of the Gers department. Auch is the historical capital of Gascony. Geography Localization Hydrography The Riv ...

. He was a member of the Société Départementale d'Agriculture et d'Horticulture du

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, the

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and the Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse. He wrote ''Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et d'eau douce qui vivent en France, par l'Abbé D. Dupuy, avec planches lithographiées, par M.J. Delarue''. Paris, V. Masson, 1847–1852
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(list of plants described) 19th-century French botanists 19th-century French zoologists French malacologists People from Gers 1812 births 1885 deaths {{France-botanist-stub