Louis Fage

Louis Fage
Louis Fage
Born	July 30, 1883; Limoges, France
Died	1964; Dijon, France
Nationality	French
Alma mater	Sorbonne (PhD)
Known for	carcinology (study of crustaceans), arachnology (study of spiders) and speleology (study of caves)
	Scientific career
Fields	zoology
Institutions	Laboratoire de biologie marine; Muséum national d'histoire naturelle;

Louis Fage (30 September 1883, in

arachnologist

.

A native of

crustaceans

).

Fage made contributions in the fields of

ammonites named Fagesia

is named after him.

Written works

With Édouard Chevreux (1846–1931) he co-authored the section on "Amphipodes" for the Faune de France (1924).^[2] Other writings by Fage include:

Recherches sur les organes segmentaires des annélides polychétes, 1906
Les scorpions de Madagascar, 1929
Cumacés et leptostracés provenant des campagnes scientifiques de S.A.S. le Prince Albert Ier de Monaco, 1929
Mysidacea : Lophogastrida, I, (1941) and Mysidacea : Lophogastrida, II (1942).
L'Importance de la vie symbiotique dans la biologie des coraux constructeurs de récifs, 1950
Oxycephalidae : amphipodes pelagiques, 1960.

Spider names

The World Spider Catalog lists 12 genera of spiders with Fage as the author or co-author of the genus name^[3] and 158 species of spiders with Fage as the author or co-author of the accepted species name or synonym.^[4] The specific name fagei appears in 41 names of spider species.^[5]

References

B-NEAT, Baltic and North East Atlantic Taxa (biographical information)

^ "Fage, Louis, 1883-1964", Virtual International Authority File, retrieved 2023-11-08
^ [1] Archived 2012-07-10 at the Wayback Machine Faune de France
^ "Gen Author: Fage", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2023-11-07
^ "Spec Author: Fage", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2023-11-07
^ "Species: fagei", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2023-11-08