Louis Marie Adolphe Olivier Édouard Joubin (27 February 1861 in

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– 24 April 1935 in

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) was a professor at the

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. He published works on

nemertea Nemertea is a phylum of animals also known as ribbon worms or proboscis worms, consisting of 1300 known species. Most ribbon worms are very slim, usually only a few millimeters wide, although a few have relatively short but wide bodies. Many h ...

ns,

chaetognatha The Chaetognatha or chaetognaths (meaning ''bristle-jaws'') are a phylum of predatory marine worms that are a major component of plankton worldwide. Commonly known as arrow worms, about 20% of the known Chaetognatha species are benthic, and ca ...

, cephalopods, and other

molluscs Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is estim ...

. He served as an assistant to Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers, subsequently becoming director of the laboratories at

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(1882) and

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(1884). Later on, he became an instructor at the

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,Prosopo
Sociétés savantes and in 1903 succeeded Edmond Perrier as ''chaire des mollusques, des vers et des zoophytes'' at the

(from 1917 onward his title was ''chaire des mollusques''). In 1906 he was chosen by

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to be in charge of instruction at the Institut océanographique. In 1905 he was named president of the

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. In 1920 he became a member of the

Académie des Sciences The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. It was at th ...

. Joubin's squid (''Joubiniteuthis portieri'') is named for him, as is '' Scolymastra joubini'', a hexactinellid

sponge Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera (; meaning 'pore bearer'), are a basal animal clade as a sister of the diploblasts. They are multicellular organisms that have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate throug ...

whose lifespan is purportedly 10,000 years. Laboratoire Joubin

Written works

* ''Les Némertiens'', 1894 -

Nemertean Nemertea is a phylum of animals also known as ribbon worms or proboscis worms, consisting of 1300 known species. Most ribbon worms are very slim, usually only a few millimeters wide, although a few have relatively short but wide bodies. Many ...

s. * ''Contribution à l'étude des Céphalopodes de l'Atlantique Nord'', 1895 - Contributions to the study of cephalopods of the North Atlantic. * ''Expédition antarctique française (1903-1905) : commandée par le Dr. Jean Charcot. Science naturelles: documents scientifiques''. - French Antarctic Expedition (1903–05) : commanded by

Jean Baptiste Charcot Jean-Baptiste-Étienne-Auguste Charcot (15 July 1867 – 16 September 1936), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893). Life Jean- ...

, Natural science: scientific documents of the expedition. * ''Deuxième expédition antarctique française (1908-1910) / Sciences naturelles: documents scientifiques''. - Second French Antarctic Expedition (1908–10) / Natural sciences: scientific documents of the expedition. * ''La vie dans les océans'', 1912 - Life in the oceans. * ''Chétognathes provenant des campagnes des yachts Hirondelle et Princesse-Alice, 1885-1910'' (with

Louis Germain Alfred Louis Pierre Germain (8 January 1878 – 18 October 1942) was a French malacologist born in Niort, department Deux-Sèvres. He studied in Angers and Paris, obtaining his doctorate of sciences in 1907. Later he worked under Louis Joubin in ...

), 1916 -

Chaetognatha The Chaetognatha or chaetognaths (meaning ''bristle-jaws'') are a phylum of predatory marine worms that are a major component of plankton worldwide. Commonly known as arrow worms, about 20% of the known Chaetognatha species are benthic, and ca ...

from campaigns of the yachts Hirondelle and Princesse-Alice, 1885-1910. * ''Le fond de la mer'', 1920 - The bottom of the sea. * ''Les métamorphoses des animaux marins'', 1926 - Metamorphosis of marine animals. * ''Éléments de biologie marine'', 1928 - Elements of marine biology. * ''Faune ichthyologique de l'Atlantique nord'', 1929 - Ichthyological fauna of the North Atlantic. * "Cephalopods from the scientific expeditions 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 ...

"; published in 1995 into English.
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