Jean-Guillaume Bruguiere

Naturalist and traveller, Jean-Guillaume Bruguiere (1750 Montpellier - October 1798 Ancône) began studies of Médecin E before turning to the natural science.

Jean Guillaume Bruguiere (1749 gold 1750 - 1798) Jean Guillaume Bruguiere (1749 gold 1750 - 1798) has French Physician, Zoologist and diplomat. -->

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It took part in the first voyage of Kerguelen-Trémarec (forwarding '' Fortune '' and '' Coccidiosis '') towards the the Antarctic in 1773. it will bring back from there interesting observations whose publication was discrete.

Of return to Montpellier, he studied the Mollusque S testacés (i.e molluscs protected by a shell) and wrote the first volume of the natural history of the Ver S for the methodical Encyclopedia, stopping with the letter " C" !

In 1790, it accompanies the Entomologiste Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756-1814) in a voyage in Perse, but its health does not enable him to continue.

In 1792, in spite of its weak health condition, he visits the Greek archipelago and the the Middle East, always with Guillaume-Antoine Olivier. He dies at the time of the return voyage.

He described various tax in his book Encyclopedic and Methodical Tableau with the three Reigns with Nature: towards, various shells, molluscs and polyps) which is appeared in three volumes in 1827, a long time after its death.

He also wrote Natural history of the Worms. Vol. 1 (1792) but it has to stop with the letter " C". Christian Hee Hwass continued his work and wrote the majority of them.

Let us tax that it named

It was interested especially in molluscs and with the invertebrates, to judge of it by this selection of let us tax that it named.

The S

Anodontites Bruguiere 1792 (Mollusc)
Cerithium Bruguiere 1789 (mollusc)
Cerithium subg. Cerithium Bruguiere 1789 (mollusc)
Corbula Bruguiere, 1792 (mollusc)
Lima Bruguiere 1797 (mollusc)
Lingula Bruguiere 1797 (Invertebrate)
Lucina Bruguiere, 1797 (mollusc)
Oliva Bruguiere, 1789 (mollusc)
Orthoceras Bruguiere 1789 (Nautiloïde)
Ovula Bruguiere 1789 (mollusc)
Terebrated Bruguiere, 1789 (mollusc)

The S

Acanthopleura spinosa (Bruguiere, 1792) (chiton)
Anadara ovalis Bruguiere 1789 (Mollusc)
Anodontites crispata Bruguiere 1792 (mollusc)
Arca imbricata Bruguiere 1789 (mollusc)
Balanus crenatus Bruguiere (Crustacean)
Balanus perforatus Bruguiere (shellfish)
Batillaria zonalis Bruguiere 1792 (mollusc)
Beröe ovata Bruguiere 1789 (Invertebrate)
Bulla striata Bruguiere 1789 (mollusc)
Bullia miran Bruguiere 1789 (mollusc)
Cardita ajar Bruguiere 1792 (mollusc)
Cardium ringens Bruguiere, 1789 (mollusc)
Cassidula aurisfelis Bruguiere 1789 (mollusc)
Cerithium eburneum Bruguiere, 1792 (mollusc)
Cerithium vulgatum Bruguiere (mollusc)
Chaetopleura spinosa Bruguiere 1792 (mollusc)
Chondrina avenacea Bruguiere 1792 (mollusc)
Known arenatus Hwass in Bruguiere 1792 (mollusc)
Known catus Hwass in Bruguiere 1792 (mollusc)
Known gubernator Hwass in Bruguiere 1792 (mollusc)
Known pulcher siamensis Hwass in Bruguiere, 1792 (mollusc)
Diplodon granosus Bruguiere, 1792 (mollusc)
Gourmya vulgata Bruguiere 1789 (mollusc)
Lingula anatina Lamarck, 1801 1798? (invertebrate)
Micromelo undata Bruguiere 1792 (mollusc)
Partula otaheitana Bruguiere, 1792 (mollusc)
Perrona nifat Bruguiere 1792 (mollusc)
Placenta placuna Bruguiere 1792 (mollusc)
Retusa truncatula Bruguiere 1792 (mollusc)
Scapharca inaequivalvis Bruguiere (mollusc)
Serripes groenlandicus Bruguiere 1789 (mollusc)
Solatopupa imitations Bruguiere 1792 (mollusc)
Sphyradium doliolum Bruguiere 1792 (mollusc)
Subulina octona Bruguiere 1792 (mollusc)
Terebralia sulcata Bruguiere 1792 (mollusc)

Plant éponyme

Its name was given to one plants: Bruguiera (a plant of the family of the Rhizophoraceae). Rhizophoraceae) has been named by Lamarck in his honor. -->

Reference

Lamy, E., 1930. The conchyliologists Bruguiere and Hwass. Journ. of Conchyl. Vol. 74.
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