Arthur René Jean Baptiste Bavay
Arthur René Jean Baptiste Bavay was a French pharmacist, herpetologist and malacologist.
Trained as a naval pharmacist, Bavay's scientific contributions included investigations involving the flora and fauna of New Caledonia, migratory studies of mollusks crossing the Suez Canal and research of the malacological families Pectinidae and Marginellidae. With malacologist Philippe Dautzenberg, he conducted studies of terrestrial and freshwater mollusks of the Far East.
He published nearly 70 articles on mollusks, and after his retirement as a pharmacist, he devoted his energies entirely to malacological research. He is credited with providing descriptions of 39 new species and several infraspecific taxa within the family Marginellidae.
His name is associated with the gecko genus Bavayia, named by Jean Roux in 1913, as well as "Bavay's keeled skink", a species named by René Léon Bourret in 1939. Other species that bear his name are: "Bavay's giant gecko" and "Bavay's gecko".Selected publications
- Etude sur deux plantes de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, 1869. ..
- Catalogue des reptiles de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et description d'espèces nouvelles, 1872. .
- Note sur l'hylodes martinicensis et ses métamorphoses, 1872. .
- Récolte des mollusques: conseils aux voyageurs, 1895. .
- Diagnoses de coquilles nouvelles de l'Indo-Chine, 1900.. .
- Descriptions de quelques nouvelles espèces du Genre Pecten, 1904. .
- Les lacs des hauts plateaux de l'Amérique du Sud, 1906.. .
- Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles récoltés par le Dr Neveu-Lemaire , 1904.
- Les lamellibranches de l'expédition du Siboga, 1912. . .
