Charles des Moulins

Charles des Moulins, full name Charles Robert Alexandre des Moulins (1798-1875)^[1] was a French naturalist, a botanist and malacologist.

Taxa

Moulins named and described numerous species of snails, for example:

• Pagodulina pagodula (des Moulins, 1830)

In turn, in recognition of his services to malacology, a number of species of mollusks were named after him. These latter species included both fossil and recent, both bivalves and gastropods and were mainly non-marine species, however, a few were marine species. Examples as follows:

• Pisania desmoulinsi Montrouzier, 1864 [1], a marine gastropod
• Anodonta desmoulinsiana Locard, 1882 [2], a freshwater bivalve
• Nerita desmoulinsiana Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1933, a marine gastropod
• Vertigo moulinsiana Dupuy 1849, a terrestrial gastropod

Moulins also named various species of plants, including:

• Euphorbia milii des Moulins, 1826 [3]

Bibliography

• 1831. Etudes s. l. Echinides [4]
• 1840. Catalogue raisonn des plantes qui croissent spontanment dans le departement de la Dordogne. distribues d'aprs le synopsis florae Germanicae et Helveticae du docteur G.D.J. Koch. Bordeaux : Th. Lafargue.

References

1. ^ Eugene V. Coan, Alan R. Kabat & Richard E. Petit, 2009. 2,400 years of malacology, 6th ed. February 15, 2009, 830 pp. + 32 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society.

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Name	Des Moulins, Charles
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Date of birth	1798
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Date of death	1875
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