Jacques Philippe Raymond Draparnaud (3 June 1772, Montpellier – 2 February 1804) was a French naturalist, malacologist and botanist. He is considered the father of malacology in France. He was professor of medicine and pathology at the Faculté de Médecine de Montpellier.
Draparnaud understood the breadth of the fauna he studied, as can be seen in a quote from him, in Histoire Naturelle des Mollusques, published in 1805:Au reste, quoique j'aie décrit pour la France seule un bien plus grand nombre d'espèces que Muller et Schroeter n'ent ont fait connoître pour l'Europe entière, et trois fois autant que Geoffroy et Poiret n'en ont observé dans les environs de Paris, je suis convaincu qu'il reste encore en ce genre bien des découvertes à faire.
Translation: As for the remainder, even though I have described for France a greater number of species than Müller and Schroeter made known for the whole of Europe, and three times as many as Geoffroy and Poiret observed around Paris, still I am convinced that there remain many more discoveries of this kind to be made.
Taxa
Draparnaud named ("described") a large number of new taxa of molluscs, including for example:
Arion subfuscus (Draparnaud, 1805), a land slug
Bulimulus lineatus (Draparnaud, 1805), a tropical land snail
Myosotella myosotis (Draparnaud, 1801), a saltmarsh snail
In addition, many other taxa of molluscs were named by others in honour of him, including:
Draparnaldia, a genus of freshwater green algae in the family Chaetophoraceae. Draparnaldiopsis, a genus of green algae in the family Chaetophoraceae. Draparnaudiidae, a family of land snails Draparnaudia, a genus of land snails Oxychilus draparnaudi, a species of land snail