Louis Germain

Alfred Louis Pierre Germain (8 January 1878 – 18 October 1942) was a French malacologist born in Niort, department Deux-Sèvres.
He studied in Angers and Paris, obtaining his doctorate of sciences in 1907. Later he worked under Louis Joubin (1861-1935) in the laboratory of mollusks, worms and zoophytes at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. From 1936 to 1942 he was director of the museum.
Recently (2010), a new genus of freshwater mussels from Madagascar called Germainaia was introduced into science.

• Étude sur les mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles vivants des environs d'Angers et du département de Maine-et-Loire, Bulletin of the Society of Natural Sciences of Western France, 1903 – Study of terrestrial and fluviatile mollusks living in the vicinity of Angers and the department of Maine-et-Loire.
• Les mollusques terrestres & fluviatiles de l'Afrique centrale française, 1907 - Terrestrial and fluviatile mollusks of French central Africa.
• Gastéropodes pulmonés et prosobranches terrestres et fluviatiles dans la Mollusques de la France et des régions voisines, 1913 - Pulmonata gastropods, terrestrial & fluviatile Prosobranchia, Mollusca of France and neighboring regions.
• Chetognathes provenant des campagnes des yachts Hirondelle et Princesse-Alice (1885-1910), 1916 - Chaetognatha from campaigns of the yachts Hirondelle and Princesse-Alice (1885-1910).
• La Biogéographie et les musées régionaux, Annales de Géographie, 1918 - Biogeography and regional museums.
• Contributions àla faune malacologique de Madagascar. Les pélécypodes fluviatiles de Madagascar. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 24:34–42. 1918 - Contributions to the malacological fauna of Madagascar, fluviatile pelecypods.
• Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, 1920 - Fluvial and terrestrial molluscs.
• Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de Syrie dans Voyage zoologique d'Henri Gadeau de Kerville en Syrie, 1926 - Terrestrial and fluviatile mollusks of Syria from the zoological voyage of Henri Gadeau de Kerville.
• La vie des animaux à la surface des continents, 1924 - Animal life on the surface of continents.
• L’Atlantide, Revue scientifique, August 9 and 23, 1924
• La faune des lacs, des étangs et des marais, 1925 - Fauna of lakes, ponds and marshes.

• [1] Prosopo (list of publications)
• [2] Biodiversity Heritage Library of Australia