Jean Abel Gruvel (14 February 1870 in

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– 18 August 1941 in

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) was a French

marine biologist Marine biology is the scientific study of the biology of marine life, organisms in the sea. Given that in biology many scientific classification, phyla, family (biology), families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others th ...

known for his research of

cirripede A barnacle is a type of arthropod constituting the subclass (taxonomy), subclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacean, Crustacea, and is hence related to crabs and lobsters. Barnacles are exclusively marine, and tend to live in shallow and tid ...

Biography

In 1894 he obtained his doctorate in sciences, and later taught classes in

zoology Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the Animal, animal kingdom, including the anatomy, structure, embryology, evolution, Biological clas ...

for three years at the faculty of sciences at Bordeaux. In 1902 he founded the ''Société d'études et de vulgarisation de la zoologie agricole'' in

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. Later on, he was a professor at the ''

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'' in

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, and was chair of the commission for the regulation of

whaling Whaling is the process of hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that became increasingly important in the Industrial Revolution. It was practiced as an organized industry ...

for

French West Africa French West Africa (french: Afrique-Occidentale française, ) was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal, French Sudan (now Mali), French Guinea (now Guinea), Ivory Coast, Upper Volta (now Burki ...

and of the committee for the protection of colonial fauna and flora.Abel Gruvel

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He was a member of the ''Conseil supérieur des colonies'', of which, he served as vice-president of the department dealing with public works, merchant marine and fisheries, covering the western coast of Africa. Also, he was instrumental in the development of the ''Service océanographique des pêches de l'Indochine'' and in the establishment of research laboratories in

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Guadeloupe Guadeloupe (; ; gcf, label=Antillean Creole, Gwadloup, ) is an archipelago and overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, and the ...

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and

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. In 1933 he became head of the marine laboratory at the Museum, and in 1935, took on a similar role at the laboratory in

(''Aquarium et Musée de la Mer de Dinard'').

Taxa

He was the taxonomic authority of the

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 ...

subclass

Thecostraca Thecostraca is a class of marine invertebrates containing over 2,200 described species. Many species have planktonic larvae which become sessile or parasitic as adults. The most important subgroup are the barnacles (subclass Cirripedia), constit ...

and of several families within this grouping; Tetraclitidae, Lithotryidae, Oxynaspididae, Anelasmatidae, Acrothoracica, Dendrogastridae, Lauridae, Petrarcidae and Synagogidae. The genera ''Gruvelia'' (family Chromodoridae) and ''Gruvelialepas'' (family Calanticidae) commemorate his name, as do taxa with the specific epithets of ''gruveli'' and ''gruvelianum''.

Selected works

* ''Contribution à l'étude des Cirrhipèdes'', 1893 – Contribution to the study of cirripedes. * ''Expéditions scientifiques du "Travailleur" et du "Talisman" : Cirrhipèdes'', 1902 – Scientific expeditions of the "Travailleur" and the "Talisman": Cirripedes. * ''Monographie des Cirrhipèdes ou Thécostracés'', 1905 – Monograph on cirripedes or Thecostraca. * ''Les pêcheries de la côte occidentale d'Afrique'', 1906 – The fisheries on the west coast of Africa. * ''A travers la Mauritanie Occidentale: de Saint-Louis à Port-Etienne'' (two volumes 1909, 1911; with René Chudeau) – A crossing of western

Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania ( ar, الجمهورية الإسلامية ...

: Saint-Louis – Port-Etienne. * ''Mission Gruvel sur la Côte occidentale d'Afrique'' (1909-1910), 1912 – The Gruvel mission to the west coast of Africa in 1909–10. * ''L'industrie des pêches sur la Côte occidentale d'Afrique'', 1913 – The fishing industry on the west coast of Africa. * ''Cirrhipèdes provenant des campagnes scientifiques de S. A. S. le Prince de Monaco (1885-1913)'', 1920 – Cirripedes from the scientific campaigns of the S. A. S. le Prince de Monaco (1885-1913). * ''L'industrie des pêches sur la côte occidentale du Maroc'', 1927 – The fishing industry on the west coast of

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