Philippe Bouchet

Philippe Bouchet
Philippe Bouchet in May, 2005
Born	1953
Residence	France
Nationality	French
Fields	Malacology, taxonomy
Institutions	Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Philippe Bouchet (born 1953) is a French biologist whose primary scientific fields of study are malacology and taxonomy. He works at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. He is also a Commissioner of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.

He is perhaps best known for his publication with Jean-Pierre Rocroi which laid out a new taxonomy of the entire class Gastropoda, published in 2005.

He has named over 500 new taxa of mollusks, and numerous taxa have been named in his honor.

Bouchet is a senior professor at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, and is head of the Malacology laboratory and the Taxonomy Collections Unit there. He is also one of the Commissioners of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature and has been a member of the ICZN since 1990.

Philippe Bouchet is co-editor of several volumes in the Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos series.

In 2005, Bouchet was the senior author (editor) (with Jean-Pierre Rocroi) of a taxonomy of the Gastropoda, published in a paper entitled "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families" published in the journal Malacologia.

Bouchet is the head of the 2004 Panglao Marine Biodiversity Project.

By the end of 2010, Bouchet had described (alone or together with others) more than 500 new species, mainly gastropods. More than 70 new species have been named in his honor. Bouchet was honored with a new genus named after him by Houart & Héros in 2008: Bouchetia. And in 2012, Bouchet was honored by having a monotypic family (and genus) of gastropods named after him: Bouchetispiridae (and Bouchetispira) by Kantor, Strong & Puillandre.