André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac
Baron André Étienne Justin Pascal Joseph François d'Audebert de Férussac was a French naturalist best known for his studies of molluscs.
He was born in Chartron, near Lauzerte in the province of Quercy, the son of Jean Baptiste Louis d'Audibert de Férussac 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 Férussac, 1821, a land snail genusHelicostyla Férussac, 1821, a land snail genusVarious other taxa were named in honor of him, including:
- Ferussaciidae Bourguignat, 1883, a land snail family
Works
Férussac's works include:- Férussac A. E. J. P. J. F. d'Audebard de 1821–1822. . pp. j–xlvij,, 1–110, . Paris, Londres..
- The first 28 parts of Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, on land and freshwater molluscs, originally begun by his father and later completed by Gérard Paul Deshayes.
- The introduction and first 11 parts of Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des céphalopodes acétabulifères, later revised and completed by d'Orbigny.