Alice Pruvot-Fol

Alice Pruvot-Fol (4 August 1873 – 28 March 1972) was a French opisthobranch malacologist. She was the author of many new species, mostly described on the basis of preserved animals. She described a new species (Nembrotha rutilans, Pruvot-Fol, 1931) on the basis of a painted illustration in a book by William Saville-Kent (1893) entitled The Great Barrier Reef of Australia. She continued working and naming new species until late in her life. Even in 1962, when she was 89 years old, she named Phyllidia pulitzeri. Some of the species described by her: Aldisa banyulensis Pruvot-Fol, 1951 Aplysiopsis formosa Pruvot-Fol Atagema gibba Pruvot-Fol Atagema rugosa Pruvot-Fol, 1951 Chelidonura africana Pruvot-Fol Chromodoris kuniei Pruvot-Fol, 1930 Cumanotus cuenoti Pruvot-Fol, 1948 Doriopsilla rarispinosa Pruvot-Fol, 1951 Elysia babai Pruvot-Fol, 1945 Elysia mercieri Pruvot-Fol, 1930 Facelina dubia Pruvot-Fol, 1949 Glossodoris hikuerensis (Pruvot-Fol, 1954) Goniodoridella savignyi Pruvot-Fol, 1933 Hermaea paucicirra Pruvot-Fol, 1953 Hypselodoris dollfusi (Pruvot-Fol, 1933 Hypselodoris fontandraui Pruvot-Fol, 1951. Laginiopsis trilobata Pruvot-Fol, 1922 Marianina rosea (Pruvot-Fol, 1930) Nembrotha rutilans (Pruvot-Fol, 1931) is a synonym for Nembrotha purpureolineata O'Donoghue, 1924 Phyllidia bataviae Pruvot-Fol, 1957 Phyllidia pulitzeri Pruvot-Fol, 1962 Phyllidiopsis krempfi Pruvot-Fol, 1957 Trapania Pruvot-Fol, 1931 Thecacera darwini, Pruvot-Fol, 1950 Thordisa filix Pruvot-Fol, 1951 Several genera and species were named in her honor: Aegires pruvotfolae Fahey & Gosliner, 2004 Elysia pruvotfolae Ernst Marcus, 1957 Hallaxa apefae Marcus & Marcus, (using just the initials APF) Pruvotaplysia Engel, 1936 Pruvotfolia Tardy, 1970 Pruvotfolia pselliotes Pruvotfolia longicirrha n.comb. Pruvot, A., 1922. Sur un type nouveau et remarquable de gymnosomes (Laginiopsis n.g.). -- Compt. Rend. hebdom. Séanc. Acad. Sci, 174: 696-698. Pruvot-Fol, A., 1924. Étude de quelques gymnosomes méditerranéens des pêches de l'Orvet en 1921 et 1922.