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Jacques Forest

{{Short description|French carcinologist (1920–2012)}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Jacques Forest

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1920|06|14|df=y}}

| birth_place = Créteil, Val-de-Marne

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2012|02|16|1920|06|14|df=y}}

| death_place =

| nationality = French

| fields = Carcinology

| workplaces = Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

| alma_mater = University of Lille

}}

Jacques Forest (14 June 1920 – 16 February 2012) was a French carcinologist.{{cite journal |author=Danielle Defaye & J. Carel von Vaupel Klein |year=2012 |title=Professor Jacques Forest (1920–2012) |journal=Crustaceana |volume=85 |issue=7 |pages=889–892 |doi=10.1163/156854012X651727}}

Biography

File:Ciliopagurus strigatus.jpg – the genus Ciliopagurus was erected by Jacques Forest in 1995.]]

File:Neoglyphea inopinata cropped.JPG was a highlight of Jacques Forest's career.]]

Born in Créteil on 14 June 1920, Jacques Forest grew up in Maubeuge.{{cite journal |author=Lucien Laubier |year=2002 |title=Jacques Forest, ou la passion des Crustacés |trans-title=Jacques Forest, or a passion for the Crustacea |language=French |journal=Crustaceana |volume=75 |issue=3/4 |pages=195–201 |jstor=20105407 |doi=10.1163/156854002760095336}} He served in the army for a year during the Second World War, and went on to study at the University of Lille after demobilisation. After graduating, he worked for several years for the {{lang|fr|Office Scientifique et Technique des Pêches Maritimes}} ("scientific and technical office for marine fisheries"; now part of IFREMER); his early publications concerned a variety of fish species. In 1949, he joined the {{lang|fr|Muséum national d'histoire naturelle}} in Paris, where he would remain for the rest of his career.

In association with Louis Fage, Forest began working on hermit crabs, and rapidly became an expert; he described over 70 new species in the family Diogenidae, for example. He also published on other Decapoda, including crabs and, most significantly, Neoglyphea inopinata, a living species of a group previously considered long-since extinct.

Forest was also an enthusiastic field biologist, and took part in several oceanographic expeditions. He launched the MUSORSTOM expeditions in 1976. He was also involved with the scientific journals Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle and Crustaceana.

Forest retired on 1 October 1989, at the age of 69, and continued to be involved with the journal Crustaceana until 2003. The Crustacean Society awarded Forest their Excellence in Research Award in 2008.{{Cite journal |author=Colin McLay |year=2008 |title=Jacques Forest recipient of the Crustacean Society Award for Research Excellence |journal=Journal of Crustacean Biology |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=424–430 |doi=10.1651/0278-0372(2008)028[0424:JFROTC]2.0.CO;2}} He died on 16 February 2012.

Legacy

Taxa named in honour of Jacques Forest include:{{cite web |url=http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.ef.html |title=Prof. Jacques Forest |work=Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names |author=Hans G. Hansson |publisher=Göteborgs Universitet |accessdate=November 4, 2012 |archive-date=February 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225194053/https://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.ef.html |url-status=dead }}{{cite journal |author=Peter K. L. Ng & Paul F. Clark |year=2003 |title=Three new genera of Indo-West Pacific Xanthidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Xanthoidea) |journal=Zoosystema |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=131–147 |url=http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/zoosyst/z03n1a4.pdf |format=PDF |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319203826/http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/zoosyst/z03n1a4.pdf |archivedate=2012-03-19 }}

;Genera

  • Forestia Guinot, 1976
  • Pagurojacquesia de Saint Laurent & McLaughlin, 2000 (replacement name for Jacquesia de Saint Laurent & McLaughlin, 1999){{cite WoRMS |author=Patsy McLaughlin |year=2012 |title=Jacquesia de Saint Laurent & McLaughlin, 1999 |db=Paguroidea |id=411781 |accessdate=November 5, 2012}}
  • Jacforus Ng & Clark, 2003

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Category:1920 births

Category:2012 deaths

Category:French carcinologists

Category:People from Créteil

Category:National Museum of Natural History (France) people