Jean Guillaume Bruguière (1749 or 1750 - 1798) was a French physician, zoologist and diplomat.
Bruguière was born in Montpellier.
He was a doctor, connected to the University of Montpellier. His was interested in invertebrates, mostly snails.
He accompanied the explorer Kerguelen-Trémarec on his first voyage to the Antarctic in 1773. In 1790 he accompanied the entomologist Olivier on an expedition to Persia, but his poor health didn't allow him to continue. In 1792, although he was ill, he visited the Greek archipelago and the Middle East, together with the entomologist Guillaume-Antoine Olivier. He was asked by the French Directoire to try to set up a Franco-Persian alliance, but was unsuccessful, lacking the training of a diplomat. He died on the voyage back.
He described several taxa in his book Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique des trois Règnes de la Nature: vers, coquilles, mollusques et polypes divers) which appeared in three volumes in 1827, long after he had died.
He also wrote Histoire Naturelle des Vers. Vol. 1 (1792) but he had to stop at the letter "C". Christian Hee Hwass continued his work and wrote most of it.
He died in October 1798 (and not in 1799, as mentioned in some sources; there was a discrepancy due to the French revolutionary calendar).
His interest went mainly to molluscs and invertebrates, as can be seen in the following choice of the taxa he named.
Authority
Genera
- Anodontites Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
- Cerithium Bruguière, 1789 (mollusc)
- Cerithium subg. Cerithium Bruguière, 1789 (mollusc)
- Corbula Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
- Lingula Bruguière, 1791 (brachiopod)
- Lucina Bruguière, 1797 (mollusc)
- Oliva Bruguière, 1789 (mollusc)
- Orthoceras Bruguière, 1789 (mollusc)
- Ovula Bruguière, 1789 (mollusc)
- Terebra Bruguière, 1789 (mollusc)
Species
- Acanthopleura spinosa (Bruguière, 1792) (mollusc)
- Anadara ovalis Bruguière, 1789 (mollusc)
- Anodontites crispata Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
- Arca imbricata Bruguière, 1789 (mollusc)
- Balanus crenatus Bruguière (crustacean)
- Balanus perforatus Bruguière (crustacean)
- Batillaria zonalis Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
- Beroe ovata Bruguière, 1789 (Ctenophora)
- Bulla striata Bruguière, 1789 (mollusc)
- Bullia miran Bruguière, 1789 (mollusc)
- Cardita ajar Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
- Cardium ringens Bruguière, 1789 (mollusc)
- Cassidula aurisfelis Bruguière, 1789 (mollusc)
- Cerithium eburneum Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
- Cerithium vulgatum Bruguière (mollusc)
- Chaetopleura spinosa Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
- Concholepas concholepas Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
- Chondrina avenacea Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
- Conus arenatus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
- Conus catus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
- Conus gubernator Hwass in Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
- Conus pulcher siamensis Hwass in Bruguière,1792 (mollusc)
- Diplodon granosus Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
- Gourmya vulgata Bruguière, 1789 (mollusc)
- Lingula anatina Lamarck, 1801 (brachiopod)
- Micromelo undata Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
- Partula otaheitana Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
- Perrona nifat Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
- Placenta placuna Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
- Retusa truncatula Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
- Scapharca inaequivalvis Bruguière (mollusc)
- Serripes groenlandicus Bruguière, 1789 (mollusc)
- Solatopupa similis Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
- Sphyradium doliolum Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
- Subulina octona Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
- Terebralia sulcata Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
The genus Bruguiera (mangrove trees from the family Rhizophoraceae) has been named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in his honor.
References
- Lamy, E., 1930. Les conchyliologistes Bruguière et Hwass. Journ. de Conchyl. Vol. 74.
- The Taxonomicon
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