Rémy Perrier | |
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Born | 14 June 1861
Tulle, France |
Died | 27 June 1936
Chaunac, France | (aged 75)
Nationality | French |
Scientific career | |
Fields | malacology, zoology |
Rémy Perrier (14 June 1861, Tulle – 27 June 1936, Chaunac) was a French zoologist. He was the younger brother of zoologist Edmond Perrier (1844-1921) who directed the French National Museum of Natural History from 1900 to 1919 and founded the Friends of the Natural History Museum society in 1907. [1]
Rémy Perrier studied natural sciences at the École normale supérieure, afterwards teaching classes in Poitiers. From 1926 to 1931 he was a professor of zoology at the faculty des sciences in Paris. He was a member of the Société des lettres, sciences et arts de la Corrèze. [2]
Perrier specialized in research on the Prosobranchia (a subclass of snails). [3] He is also remembered for his study of sea cucumbers, being credited with creation of the taxonomic genus Gastrothuria. [4]
Beginning in 1923, Perrier released "La Faune de la France en tableaux synoptiques illustrés", a work on zoology published in ten installments by Librairie Delagrave. [5]