Baron
André Étienne Justin Pascal Joseph François d'Audebert de Férussac (30 December 1786 – 21 January 1836) was a
FrenchThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
naturalistNaturalist may refer to:* Practitioner of natural history* Conservationist* Advocate of naturalism * Naturalist , autobiography-See also:* The American Naturalist, periodical* Naturalism...
best known for his studies of
molluscsThe Mollusca , common name molluscs or mollusksSpelled mollusks in the USA, see reasons given in Rosenberg's ; for the spelling mollusc see the reasons given by , is a large phylum of invertebrate animals. There are around 85,000 recognized extant species of molluscs. Mollusca is the largest...
. (Two of his given names are sometimes spelt
Just or
Juste in stead of Justin, and
d'Audibert,
d'Audebard, or
d'Audeberd instead of "d'Audebert".)
He was born in Chartron, near
LauzerteLauzerte is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Midi-Pyrénées region in southern France.A medieval bastide perched above the valleys and hills of the area known as the Quercy Blanc, Lauzerte is one of the Most Beautiful Villages of France, a distinction granted to only 155 villages...
in the province of
QuercyQuercy is a former province of France located in the country's southwest, bounded on the north by Limousin, on the west by Périgord and Agenais, on the south by Gascony and Languedoc, and on the east by Rouergue and Auvergne....
(now in
Tarn-et-GaronneTarn-et-Garonne is a French department in the southwest of France. It is traversed by the Rivers Tarn and Garonne, from which it takes its name.-History:...
), the son of
Jean Baptiste Louis d'Audibert de FérussacBaron Jean Baptiste Louis d'Audibert de Férussac was a French naturalist and geologist.Jean Baptiste Audibert de Férussac was born in Clerac, the son of Joseph d'Audebard de Férussac , Seigneur de Jouatas, and Marie Anne du Lion de Gasque, and was educated at the military school...
and Marie Catherine Josèphe de Rozet, and was professor of geography and statistics at the École d'état-major in Paris.
Taxa
Férussac named and described numerous taxa of gastropods, including:
- Cochlodina
Cochlodina is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.-Species:Species within this genus include:* Cochlodina cerata...
Férussac, 1821, a land snailSnail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
genus
- Helicostyla
Helicostyla is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Bradybaenidae.Helicostyla is the type genus of the subfamily Helicostylinae.-Species:...
Férussac, 1821, a land snailSnail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
genus
Various other taxa were named in honor of him, including:
- Ferussaciidae
Ferussaciidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Achatinoidea.This family has no subfamilies...
BourguignatJules René Bourguignat was a French malacologist, a scientist who studied mollusks.-Taxa:Bourguignat named and described many species of mollusks, including:* Lanistes alexandri Bourguignat, 1850, a species of freshwater snail...
, 1883, a land snail family
Works
Férussac's works include:
- Férussac A. E. J. P. J. F. d'Audebard de 1821-1822. Tableaux systématiques des animaux mollusques classés en familles naturelles, dans lesquels on a établi la concordance de tous les systèmes; suivis d'un prodrome général pour tous les mollusques terrestres ou fluviatiles, vivants ou fossiles. pp. j-xlvij [= 1-47], [1], 1-110, [1]. Paris, Londres. (Bertrand, Sowerby).
- The first 28 parts of Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, on land and freshwater molluscs (4 volumes, 1819–1832), originally begun by his father and later completed by Gérard Paul Deshayes
Gérard Paul Deshayes was a French geologist and conchologist.He was born in Nancy, his father at that time being professor of experimental physics in the École Centrale of the Meurthe département....
.
- The introduction and first 11 parts of Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des céphalopodes acétabulifères (Paris, 1834-5), later revised and completed by d'Orbigny.
He was also, from 1822, the editor of the
Bulletin général et universel des annonces et des nouvelles scientifiques.