About Alice Pruvot-Fol
Lived 1873 – 1972 (aged 98). Alice Pruvot-Fol was a French zoologist, malacologist and biologist.
Alice Pruvot-Fol (4 August 1873 – 28 March 1972) was a French opisthobranch malacologist, especially the Nudibranchia.
She was the author of many new species, mostly described on the basis of preserved animals. She described a new species (Nembrotha rutilans, Pruvot-Fol, 1931) on the basis of a painted illustration in a book by William Saville-Kent (1893) entitled The Great Barrier Reef of Australia. She continued working and naming new species until late in her life. Even in 1962, when she was 89 years old, she named Phyllidia pulitzeri.
Species Some of the species described by her: Aldisa banyulensis Pruvot-Fol, 1951 Aplysiopsis formosa Pruvot-Fol Atagema gibba Pruvot-Fol Atagema rugosa Pruvot-Fol, 1951 Chelidonura africana Pruvot-Fol Chromodoris kuniei Pruvot-Fol, 1930 Cumanotus cuenoti Pruvot-Fol, 1948 Doriopsilla rarispinosa Pruvot-Fol, 1951 Elysia babai Pruvot-Fol, 1945 Elysia mercieri Pruvot-Fol, 1930 Facelina dubia Pruvot-Fol, 1949 Glossodoris hikuerensis (Pruvot-Fol, 1954) Goniodoridella savignyi Pruvot-Fol, 1933 Hermaea paucicirra Pruvot-Fol, 1953 Hypselodoris dollfusi (Pruvot-Fol, 1933 Hypselodoris fontandraui Pruvot-Fol, 1951. Laginiopsis trilobata Pruvot-Fol, 1922 Marianina rosea (Pruvot-Fol, 1930) Nembrotha rutilans (Pruvot-Fol, 1931) is a synonym for Nembrotha purpureolineata O'Donoghue, 1924 Phyllidia bataviae Pruvot-Fol, 1957 Phyllidia pulitzeri Pruvot-Fol, 1962 Phyllidiopsis krempfi Pruvot-Fol, 1957 Trapania Pruvot-Fol, 1931 Thecacera darwini, Pruvot-Fol, 1950 Thordisa filix Pruvot-Fol, 1951
Named in her honor Several genera and species were named in her honor: Aegires pruvotfolae Fahey & Gosliner, 2004 Elysia pruvotfolae Ernst Marcus, 1957 Hallaxa apefae Marcus & Marcus, (using just the initials APF) Pruvotaplysia Engel, 1936 Pruvotfolia Tardy, 1970 Pruvotfolia pselliotes Pruvotfolia longicirrha n.comb.
Selected works
Pruvot, A., 1922. Sur un type nouveau et remarquable de gymnosomes (Laginiopsis n.g.). -- Compt. Rend. hebdom. Séanc. Acad. Sci, 174: 696–698. Pruvot-Fol, A., 1924. Étude de quelques gymnosomes méditerranéens des pêches de l'Orvet en 1921 et 1922. -- Arch. Zool. Exp. Gén., 62(6): 345–400, 32 figs, pls 15–16. Pruvot-Fol, A., 1925. Contributions à l'étude du genre Janthina Bolten. -- C.R. hebd. Séances Acad. Sci., 181: .... Pruvot-Fol, A., 1926. Mollusques ptéropodes gymnosomes provenant des campagnes du *Prince Albert 1 de Monaco. -- Résultats des Campagnes Scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert I, Prince souverain de Monaco, publiés sous sa direction avec le concours de M. Jules Richard, Docteur ès-sciences, chargé des travaux zoologiques à bord, 70: 1-60, 3 tabs, 102 figs. Pruvot-Fol, A., 1930. Sur l'identité réelle et la valeur systématique de Micrella dubia Bgh.. -- Bull. Soc. zool. France, 55: 210–213. Pruvot-Fol, A., 1932. Note sur quelques gymnosomes de provenances diverses et diagnose d'un genre nouveau. -- Arch. Zool. expér. gén., 74 (vol. jub.): 507–529, 18 figs, pl. 3. Pruvot-Fol, A., 1934. Les opisthobranches de Quoy & Gaimard. Appendum 2. Les gymnosomes de Quoy & Gaimard. -- Arch. Mus. Nat. Hist. nat., (6)11: 81. Pruvot-Fol, A., 1934. Note malacologique. A propos du tubercule médian du pied des gymnosomes. -- Bull. Soc. zool. France, 59(4): 291–293. Pruvot-Fol, A., 1934. Faune et flore de la Méditerranée. Gastropoda-Opisthobranchia-Gymnosomata. -- Comm. Intern. Expl. Sc. Mer Méditerr...... Pruvot-Fol, A., 1936. Morphologie du pied des mollusques. Ses homologies. -- Verh. schweiz. Naturf. Gesellsch., 117: 327–328. Pruvot-Fol, A., 1938. Sur les apparences trompeuses de quelques échantillons de gymnosomes à l'état conservé. -- Journal de Conchyliologie, 82(3): 256–258, figs A-B, pl. 4. Pruvot-Fol, A., 1942. Les gymnosomes. -- Dana Rep., 4(20): 1-54, 77 figs. Pruvot-Fol A. (1951). "Étude des nudibranches de la Méditerranée". Archives de zoologie expérimentale et générale 88(1): 73. Pruvot-Fol A. (1954). "Mollusques Opisthobranches". Faune de France, P. Lechevalier Paris 58: 1–460. Pruvot-Fol, A., 1954. Mollusques opisthobranches. Paris, Lechevalier: 1–457, 173 figs, 1 pl. Pruvot-Fol, A., 1960. Les organes génitaux des opisthobranches. -- Arch. Zool. expér. gén., 99(2): 135–223, 33 figs. Pruvot-Fol, A., 1963. Les ventouses chez les mollusques gastéropodes et plus spécialement chez les gymnosomes. -- Journal de Conchyliologie, 103(1): 3-20, 11 figs.
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Alice Pruvot-Fol was born on 16 December 1873 in Vandœuvres.
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Alice Pruvot-Fol died on 28 March 1972.
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