Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck
1744-1829, France



Although Jean-Baptiste Lamarck is much better known as a philosopher and pre-evolutionist, he authored a number of hydrozoan species and genera that are still in use (plus some that have been synonymized), e. g.

Stylaster flabelliformis (Lamarck, 1816)

Millepora complanata Lamarck, 1816

Zygophylax antipathes (Lamarck, 1816)

Sertularia bicuspidata Lamarck, 1816

Halopteris sulcata (Lamarck, 1816)

Halicornopis elegans (Lamarck, 1816)

Nemertesia ramosa (Lamarck, 1816)

Plumularia scabra (Lamarck, 1816)

Gymnangium urceoliferum (Lamarck, 1816)

Macrorhynchia filamentosa (Lamarck, 1816)

Lytocarpia angulosa (Lamarck, 1816)



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