Paul Fagot
French malacologist
Jacques Sébastien François Léonce Marie Paul Fagot (1842, Villefranche-de-Lauragais –1908) was a French malacologist who often published under the name Paul Fagot.
Life and career
Fagot was part of a "New School" of naturalists, which included Jules-René Bourguignat, Aristide-Horace Letourneux, Jules François Mabille, and Étienne Alexandre Arnould Locard. Species of land snails that were named and described by Fagot include Aegopinella epipedostoma, Pyrenaearia navasi, and Pyrenaearia cotiellae.
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