Jean-Pierre Rocroi is a French malacologist, a scientist who studies mollusks. He works at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris.
In 2005, he was the junior author (editor) (with Philippe Bouchet) of a new taxonomy of the class Gastropoda, published in a paper titled "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families" published in the journal Malacologia.[1] This taxonomy is shown in the Wikipedia article "Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)".
- ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.