Jean Abel Gruvel
Jean Abel Gruvel was a French marine biologist known for his research of cirripedes.
Biography
In 1894 he obtained his doctorate in sciences, and later taught classes in zoology for three years at the faculty of sciences at Bordeaux. In 1902 he founded the Société d'études et de vulgarisation de la zoologie agricole in Bordeaux. Later on, he was a professor at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, and was chair of the commission for the regulation of whaling for French West Africa and of the committee for the protection of colonial fauna and flora.He was a member of the Conseil supérieur des colonies, of which, he served as vice-president of the department dealing with public works, merchant marine and fisheries, covering the western coast of Africa. Also, he was instrumental in the development of the Service océanographique des pêches de l'Indochine and in the establishment of research laboratories in Martinique, Guadeloupe, Réunion and New Caledonia. In 1933 he became head of the marine laboratory at the Museum, and in 1935, took on a similar role at the laboratory in Dinard.
Taxa
He was the taxonomic authority of the crustacean subclass Thecostraca and of several families within this grouping; Tetraclitidae, Lithotryidae, Oxynaspididae, Anelasmatidae, Acrothoracica, Dendrogastridae, Lauridae, Petrarcidae and Synagogidae.Taxa described by him
- See :Category:Taxa named by Jean Abel Gruvel
Taxa named in his honor
- The genera Gruvelia and Gruvelialepas commemorate his name, as do taxa with the specific epithets of gruveli and gruvelianum.
- The Guinea flathead is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Platycephalidae, the flatheads. Gruvel is the collector of the type specimen.
- Gibberula gruveli is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Cystiscidae.
- Labeobarbus gruveli is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Labeobarbus which is known only from the Dubreka River in Guinea.
- Eucithara gruveli is a small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
- Kongsrudia gruveli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
- Nymphon gruveli Bouvier, 1910,
- Gruvelialepas Newman, 1980,
- Turbonilla gruveli Dautzenberg, 1913, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
- Scutellina gruveli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phenacolepadidae.
- Vaughtia gruveli, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
- Teloscalpellum gruvelianum,
- Natica gruveli Dautzenberg, 1910 is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails,
- Trophon gruveli Dautzenberg, 1910,
- Fustiaria gruveli,
- Leptogorgia gruveli Stiasny, 1936,
- Alcyonium gruveli Tixier-Durivault, 1955,
- Grammoplites gruveli were also named after him.