Sonia Ribes-Beaudemoulin

Sonia Ribes-Beaudemoulin (born 22 November 1953 in Saint-Pierre) is a French biologist and oceanographer. From 1991 to 2019, she was chief curator of the Reunion Island Natural History Museum. She was awarded the National Order of Merit.[1]

Sonia Ribes-Beaudemoulin
Alma materUniversité Aix-Marseille
Scientific career
ThesisLa macrofaune vagile associée à la partie vivante des Scléractiniaires sur un récif frangeant de l'Ile de la Réunion (Océan indien) (1978)

She graduated from Pierre and Marie-Curie University, and Aix-Marseille University.[2] In 1990, she was appointed curator of the Natural History Museum of Reunion. She studied marine life in the Indian Ocean, including coral reefs. She organized exhibitions for the museum[3] and Nactus soniae is a species of gecko that was found during one of the expeditions and named after Ribes-Beaudemolin.[4]

Works
  • Ribes-Beaudemoulin, Sonia (2007-07-01). "Le muséum d'Histoire naturelle de La Réunion. Vers un muséum de l'insularité". La Lettre de l'OCIM. Musées, Patrimoine et Culture scientifiques et techniques (in French) (112): 22–29. doi:10.4000/ocim.734. ISSN 0994-1908.

Exhibitions
  • Animaux des jardins créoles, en collaboration with François Malbreil (2006)
  • Poissons des récifs coralliens, en collaboration with Patrick Durville (2006).
  • Les animaux des récifs coralliens (2008) [2]

References
  1. "Remise de l'insigne d'Officier de l'Ordre National du Mérite | Les archives d'actu | Actualité". www.departement974.fr. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
  2. "RIBES Sonia née Beaudemoulin". Réunionnais du Monde (in French). Retrieved 2021-03-08.
  3. OK. "Le monde fabuleux de Sonia Ribes-Beaudemoulin". Clicanoo.re (in French). Retrieved 2021-03-08.
  4. Arnold, E. Nicholas; Bour, Roger (2008). "A new Nactus gecko (Gekkonidae) and a new Leiolopisma skink (Scincidae) from La Réunion, Indian Ocean, based on recent fossil remains and ancient DNA sequence" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1705: 40–50. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1705.1.3 – via Magnolia Press.


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