Alice Pruvot-Fol

Alice Pruvot-Fol (1873-1972) was a French opisthobranch malacologist.

She was the author of many new species, mostly described on the basis of preserved animals.

She even 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.
• 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.