Nicolas Robert Bouchard-Chantereaux (8 September 1802 – 22 November 1864) was a French geologist and zoologist interested in

malacology 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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. He was President de l'Administration du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle

Boulogne Boulogne-sur-Mer (; pcd, Boulonne-su-Mér; nl, Bonen; la, Gesoriacum or ''Bononia''), often called just Boulogne (, ), is a coastal city in Northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department of Pas-de-Calais. Boulogne lies on the ...

(collections now in

Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Lille The Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Lille, or Lille Natural History Museum, was founded in 1822. It houses zoological and geological collections. Its holdings have recently been enhanced by ethnographic Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' ...

). Bouchard-Chanteraux wrote ''Catalogue des mollusques marins observés jusqu'à ce jour à l'état vivant sur les côtes du Boulonnais'' Boulogne, Impr. de Le Roy-Mabille online published in 1829 and ''Catalogue des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles observés jusqu'à ce jour à l'état vivant dans le département du

Pas-de-Calais Pas-de-Calais (, " strait of Calais"; pcd, Pas-Calés; also nl, Nauw van Kales) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments ...

'' Boulogne, Impr. de Le Roy-Mabille published in 1838 online here and ''Catalogue des Crustacés observés jusqu'a ce jour a l'état vivant dans le Boulonnais'' 1833 Bouchard-Chanteraux collected fossils alongside Pierre-Nicolas Dutertre Delporte, Administrateur du Muséum, à Boulogne. ''Among the magnificent collections of Mr. Bouchard should be especially admired his Brachiopods: immense series of certain species collected with paternal care of immense series which capture all the nuances possible, differences in age, size, relationships with such or such other closely related species. Mr. Bouchard drawers are more precious than any book teaching! I couldn't tire of admire these beautiful series. Among the most remarkable and the most useful for geologists coming to visit the Boulonnais''

Eugène Eudes-Deslongchamps Eugène Eudes-Deslongchamps (10 March 1830 – 21 December 1889) was a French paleontologist and naturalist born in Caen, the son of paleontologist Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps (1794–1867). He died at Château Matthieu, Calvados. Arou ...

.His collections included Jurassic fish studied by

Louis Agassiz Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( ; ) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history. Spending his early life in Switzerland, he rec ...

. ''Depuis longtemps déjà Dutertre-Delporte recueillait des débris de poissons fossiles; de son côté Bouchard-Chantereaux en accumulait dans ses riches collections paléontologiques. Les auteurs classiques avaient connaissance des espèces que possédaient les deux naturalistes.

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adonné, dans la famille des Chimères, le nom de Dutertre à un individu du genre Ischyodus.

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, dans sa Zoologie et Géologie Françaises cite Bouchard à propos d'un Ibodus''. Bouchard-Chanteraux described the snail ''

Catinella arenaria ''Quickella'' is a monotypic genus of land snail in the family Succineidae, the amber snails. It is known commonly as the sandbowl snail. The only species is ''Quickella arenaria''. ;Synonyms: * ''Quickella (Mediappendix)'' Pilsbry, 1948: syno ...

'' The brachiopod ''Soaresirhynchia bouchardi''

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1852 honours his name as do the fossil sharks ''Lamna bouchardi'' Sauvage , 1867 (''Cretolamna bouchardi'') and ''Ischyodus bouchardi'' Sauvage, 1867. Other name bearers are the fossil echinoid ''Hemipedina bouchardi''

Wright Wright is an occupational surname originating in England. The term 'Wright' comes from the circa 700 AD Old English word 'wryhta' or 'wyrhta', meaning worker or shaper of wood. Later it became any occupational worker (for example, a shipwright is ...

and the fossil bivalve ''Isognomon bouchardi'' Oppel

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