Jean-Louis Hardouin Michelin de Choisy (25 May 1786 – 9 July 1867, in

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) was a French

malacologist Malacology is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (mollusks or molluscs), the second-largest phylum of animals in terms of described species after the arthropods. Mollusks include snails and slugs, clams, ...

and

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. Michelin de Choisy was an 'Inspecteur des Finances'. He wrote Description des polypiers fossiles du Bassin Parisien. (Groupe Supracrétacé.) Avec figures lithographiées par Ludovic Michelin in ''Iconographie zoophytologique'' and many papers in ''Magasin de conchyliologie''.

References

*H. Crosse & P. Fischer, 1868. Nécrologie.''Journal de Conchyliologie'' 16(1): 121. *L. Germain & G. Ranson, 1937. Notice sur H. Michelin et ses collections. ''Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle'' (ser. 2) 9(6): 387-390.

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Iconographie zoophytologique French malacologists French paleontologists 1786 births 1867 deaths {{France-zoologist-stub