Léopold de Folin
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1817 – 1896
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Who was Léopold de Folin?
Léopold de Folin was an author, oceanographer, malacologist and early founder of the collections which were to become the Musée de la mer in Biarritz, France
De Folin wrote on Caecidae for the reports published following the Challenger expedition of 1872-1876.
With Henri Milne-Edwards's son Alphonse, de Folin carried out a survey of the Gulf of Gascony. He worked on board the Travailleur in 1880, and on board the Talisman in 1883, for trips to the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Islands and the Azores.
De Folin also described the genus Oceanida of sea snails in the family Eulimidae.
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