The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, is the national natural history museum of France and a grand établissement of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities. The main museum, with four galleries, is located in Paris, France, within the Jardin des Plantes on the left bank of the River Seine. It was formally founded in 1793 during the French Revolution, but was begun even earlier in 1635 as the royal garden of medicinal plants. The museum now has 14 sites throughout France.
Dutuitosaurus is a genus of metoposaurids, a group of amphibians that lived during the Late Triassic period. Dutuitosaurus was discovered in the early 1960s in Morocco and is known from the lower t5 units of the Timezgadiouine Formation exposures in the Argana Basin of the High Atlas Mountains and was first described in 1976 by French paleontologist Jean-Michel Dutuit. Material of Dutuitosaurus is currently held in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN) in Paris, France. It was originally placed within Metoposaurus as M. ouazzoui but was subsequently placed in its own genus, Dutuitosaurus, by Hunt (1993), who identified a number of differences between Metoposaurus and the Moroccan metoposaurids. Features that differentiate Dutuitosaurus from other metoposaurids include relative elongate intercentra and a maxilla that enters the orbit.
Theodore Wells Pietsch III is an American systematist and evolutionary biologist especially known for his studies of anglerfishes. Pietsch has described 72 species and 14 genera of fishes and published numerous scientific papers focusing on the relationships, evolutionary history, and functional morphology of teleosts, particularly deep-sea taxa. For this body of work, Pietsch was awarded the Robert H. Gibbs Jr. Memorial Award in Systematic Ichthyology by the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in 2005. Pietsch has spent most of his career at the University of Washington in Seattle as a professor mentoring graduate students, teaching ichthyology to undergraduates, and curating the ichthyology collections of the UW Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.
Comitas rex is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies
Gymnobela eridmata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Clavosurcula schepmani is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlespiridae.
Nihonia maxima is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cochlespiridae.
Lusitanops dictyota is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Veprecula bandensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Xanthodaphne cladara is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Gemmula closterion is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.
Brocchinia kaiensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
Leptotrophon kastoroae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Turbonilla crosnieri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
Clavagella is a genus of marine bivalves in the family Clavagellidae.
Cyclocardia elegans is an extinct species of clam in the family Carditidae.
Acanthosquilla is a genus of stomatopod crustacean. The American carcinologist Raymond B. Manning named and first circumscribed the genus in 1963. As of 2018, the World Register of Marine Species recognizes the following eight species:
Jean-Lou Justine, French parasitologist and zoologist, is a professor at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, and a specialist of fish parasites and invasive land planarians.
Narindasaurus is a genus of turiasaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Isalo III Formation of Madagascar. The type species, N. thevenini was formally described by Royo-Torres et al. in 2020. The holotype, which consists of one specimen, is currently stored at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle and has been since 1906 or 1907.
Alain is a genus of crabs belonging to the family Pinnotheridae, and was first described in 1998 by Raymond Manning. The type species of this genus was collected in Indonesian territorial waters.
