Philippe Bouchet Scientist

Philippe Bouchet (born 1953) is a French biologist whose primary scientific fields of study are malacology and taxonomy. He works at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. He is also a Commissioner of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.He is perhaps best known for his publication with Jean-Pierre Rocroi which laid out a new taxonomy of the entire class Gastropoda, published in 2005.He has named over 500 new taxa of mollusks, and numerous taxa have been named in his honor.

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Philippe Bouchet
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1953
Nationality
France

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