Charles des Moulins

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Charles Des Moulins, full name Charles Robert Alexandre Des Moulins (13 March 1798 – 23 December 1875)^[1] was a French naturalist, a botanist and malacologist.

He was a member of several learned societies, including the American Philosophical Society, which elected him an international Member in 1861,^[2] and the Société linnéenne de Bordeaux, for which he served as president in 1826.^[3]

Taxa

Moulins named and described numerous species of snails, for example:

• Pagodulina pagodula (Des Moulins, 1830)

In turn, in recognition of his services to malacology, a number of species of mollusks were named after him. These latter species included both fossil and recent, both bivalves and gastropods, and were mainly non-marine species, however, a few were marine species. Examples as follows:

• Pisania desmoulinsi Montrouzier, 1864 , a marine gastropod
• Anodonta desmoulinsiana Locard, 1882 , a freshwater bivalve
• Nerita desmoulinsiana Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1933, a marine gastropod
• Vertigo moulinsiana Dupuy, 1849, a terrestrial gastropod

Moulins also named various species of plants, including:

• Euphorbia milii Des Moulins, 1826

The botanical genus Moulinsia (family Sapindaceae) was named in his honor by Jacques Cambessèdes.^[4][5]

Bibliography

• 1831: Etudes s. l. Echinides
• 1840: Catalogue raisonné des plantes qui croissent spontanément dans le département de la Dordogne. distribuées d'après le synopsis florae Germanicae et Helveticae du docteur G.D.J. Koch. Bordeaux : Th. Lafargue.
• 1859: Comparaison des départements de la Gironde et de la Dordogne sous le rapport de leur végétation spontanée et de leurs cultures.^[7]
• 1869: Quelques réflexions sur la doctrine scientifique dite Darwinisme.^[8]