Eugène Louis Bouvier

Eugène Louis Bouvier (9 April 1856 in Saint-Laurent-en-Grandvaux – 14 January 1944 in Paris) was a French entomologist and carcinologist. Bouvier was a professor at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.

Biography Following graduation at the normal school in Lons-le-Saunier, he taught classes in Clairvaux, Versailles, Saint-Cloud, and Villefranche-sur-Saône. From 1882 to 1887, he served as a boursier at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, where he studied with Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835–1900) and Edmond Perrier (1844–1921). Together with Milne-Edwards, he worked on some of the crustaceans from the Travailleur and Talisman expeditions (1880–1883).

Works Recherches sur les affinités des Lithodes & des Lomis avec les Paguridés (1895) – Studies on the closer relationships of the king crab Lithodes and Lomis with pagurid hermit crabs. Nouvelles observations sur les glaucothoés (1905) – New Observations on Glaucothoe (larvae). [Vie psychique des insectes] (1918) – The Psychic Life of Insects (translated, 1922). Habitudes et Métamorphoses des insectes (1919) – Behavior and Metamorphosis of Insects. Le Communisme chez les insectes (1926) – Communism Among Insects. Monographie des lépidoptères saturnides (1934) – Monograph of Lepidoptera, Saturniidae. Décapodes marcheurs de la faune de France (1940) – Decapoda of France.

Legacy Taxa named after Bouvier include:

Procambarus bouvieri, a crayfish Hemidactylus bouvieri, a leaf-toed gecko Rissoina bouvieri, a sea snail Eumetula bouvieri, a sea snail Procolobus bouvieri, a monkey Cyphocaris bouvieri, an amphipod Cinnyris bouvieri, a sunbird Scotopelia bouvieri, a fishing owl Procambarus bouvieri, a crayfish Messor bouvieri, an ant Peripatus bouvieri, a velvet worm