Philippe Bouchet, Date of Birth

Philippe Bouchet

French zoologist and malacologist

Date of Birth: 13-Aug-1953

Profession: zoologist, malacologist, professeur des universités

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Philippe Bouchet (born 1953) is a French biologist whose primary scientific fields of study are malacology (the study of molluscs) 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. Bouchet published Taxonomy of the Gastropoda with the malacologist Jean-Pierre Rocroi in 2005, which laid out a new taxonomy of Gastropod molluscs. He has named over 500 new taxa of mollusks, and numerous taxa have been named in his honor.