Jean Guillaume Bruguière

Jean Guillaume Bruguière (1749 or 1750 - 1798) was a French physician, zoologist and diplomat.

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Bruguière was born in Montpellier.

He was a doctor, connected to the University of Montpellier. His was interested in invertebrates, mostly snails.

He accompanied the explorer Kerguelen-Trémarec on his first voyage to the Antarctic in 1773. In 1790 he accompanied the entomologist Olivier on an expedition to Persia, but his poor health didn't allow him to continue. In 1792, although he was ill, he visited the Greek archipelago and the Middle East, together with the entomologist Guillaume-Antoine Olivier. He died on the voyage back.

He described several taxa in his book Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique des trois Règnes de la Nature: vers, coquilles, mollusques et polypes divers) which appeared in three volumes in 1827, long after he had died.

He also wrote Histoire Naturelle des Vers. Vol. 1 (1792) but he had to stop at the letter "C". Christian Hee Hwass continued his work and wrote most of it.

He died in October 1798 (and not in 1799, as mentioned in some sources; there was a discrepancy due to the French revolutionary calendar).  

His interest went mainly to molluscs and invertebrates, as can be seen in the following choice of the taxa he named.

Genera

• Anodontites Bruguière 1792 (mollusc)
• Cerithium Bruguière 1789 (mollusc)
• Cerithium subg. Cerithium Bruguière 1789 (mollusc)
• Corbula Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
• Lima Bruguière 1797 (mollusc)
• Lingula Bruguière, 1791 (brachiopod)
• Lucina Bruguière, 1797 (mollusc)
• Oliva Bruguiére, 1789 (mollusc)
• Orthoceras Bruguière 1789 (nautiloid)
• Ovula Bruguière 1789 (mollusc)
• Terebra Bruguiére, 1789 (mollusc)

Species

• Acanthopleura spinosa (Bruguiere, 1792) (chiton)
• Anadara ovalis Bruguière 1789 (mollusc)
• Anodontites crispata Bruguière 1792 (mollusc)
• Arca imbricata Bruguière 1789 (mollusc)
• Balanus crenatus Bruguière (crustacean)
• Balanus perforatus Bruguière (crustacean)
• Batillaria zonalis Bruguière 1792 (mollusc)
• Beröe ovata Bruguière 1789(invertebrate)
• Bulla striata Bruguière 1789 (mollusc)
• Bullia miran Bruguière 1789 (mollusc)
• Cardita ajar Bruguière 1792 (mollusc)
• Cardium ringens Bruguière, 1789 (mollusc)
• Cassidula aurisfelis Bruguière 1789 (mollusc)
• Cerithium eburneum Bruguière, 1792 (mollusc)
• Cerithium vulgatum Bruguière (mollusc)
• Chaetopleura spinosa Bruguière 1792 (mollusc)
• Chondrina avenacea Bruguière 1792(mollusc)
• Conus arenatus Hwass in Bruguière 1792 (mollusc)
• Conus catus Hwass in Bruguière 1792 (mollusc)
• Conus gubernator Hwass in Bruguière 1792 (mollusc)
• Conus pulcher siamensis Hwass in Bruguière,1792 (mollusc)
• Diplodon granosus Bruguiere, 1792 (mollusc)
• Gourmya vulgata Bruguière 1789 (mollusc)
• Lingula anatina Lamarck, 1801 (brachiopod)
• Micromelo undata Bruguière 1792 (mollusc)
• Partula otaheitana Bruguiere, 1792 (mollusc)
• Perrona nifat Bruguière 1792(mollusc)
• Placenta placuna Bruguière 1792(mollusc)
• Retusa truncatula Bruguière 1792(mollusc)
• Scapharca inaequivalvis Bruguière (mollusc)
• Serripes groenlandicus Bruguière 1789 (mollusc)
• Solatopupa similis Bruguière 1792 (mollusc)
• Sphyradium doliolum Bruguière 1792(mollusc)
• Subulina octona Bruguière 1792 (mollusc)
• Terebralia sulcata Bruguière 1792 (mollusc)

The genus Bruguiera (mangrove trees from the family Rhizophoraceae) has been named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in his honor.

References

• Lamy, E., 1930. Les conchyliologistes Bruguière et Hwass. Journ. de Conchyl. Vol. 74.
• The Taxonomicon