Félix Pierre Jousseaume

Félix Pierre Jousseaume ( born April 12, 1835 in Vervant; † November 3, 1921 in Chantilly) was a French physician and expert on mollusks.

Life and work

Félix Pierre Jousseaume studied in Paris and received his doctorate in medicine in 1862, his dissertation is titled "The Végétaux parasites de l' Homme ". After his studies he remained in Paris and practiced there as a General Practitioner. He co-founded the Société zoologique de France, which he was president in 1878. After 1890 he gave up his previous activities, and devoted to the study of mollusks. For this he undertook numerous expeditions to the Red Sea. His collected finds - usually the mollusks were also other invertebrate - he handed the Muséum national d' histoire naturelle. Jousseaume wrote many short scientific papers, which were mainly published in journals Naturaliste, revue illustrée des sciences naturelles, les Nouvelles archives des missions scientifiques et littéraires, la Revue et Magasin de zoology and le Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France.

He researched and edited the internal systematics of worm families. The following genera of the family of cowries were erected by him in 1884 and can still find use: Ipsa, Luria, Staphylaea, Trona, Umbilia, Zoila, Zonaria. He also conducted research among other things, these families: whelks ( Muricidae ), soil auger ( Cecilioididae, syn Ferussaciidae. ), Door snails ( Clausiliidae ), Whelks ( Cassidae ) Cerithioidea and awls snails ( Subulinidae ).

Honors

In recognition of his work for him several genera and species were named: Jousseaumea Sacco 1894, Jousseaumiella Bourne 1907, Metis jusseaumei (Richard), Amphibetaeus jousseaumei Coutière 1896, Neocallichirus jousseaumei ( Nobili 1904), Murex jousseaumei Poirier 1883, Chlamys jousseaumei Bavay 1904, Cerithiopsis jousseaumei Jay & Drivas, 2002 and Clathrosansonia jousseaumei ( Bavai 1921).

Works

• Description d'une nouvelle espèce de Coquille du Japon du genre Arca. In: The Humming Bird. A Quarterly Scientific, Artistic and Industrial Review. 4, No. 4, 1894, pp. 41-45 (online, accessed on April 9, 2013).
• Philosophy aux prises avec la la Mer Rouge, le darwinisme et les 3 règnes the corps organisés. A. Maloine, Paris 1899.
• De l' attraction et autres joyeusetés de la science. A. Maloine, Paris, 1907.
• Impressions de voyage en Apharras [Texts imprimé ], anthropology, philosophy, morale d'un peuple errant berger et guerrier. 2 volumes, J.-B. Baillière et fils, Paris, 1914.