Pierre Denys de Montfort
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Pierre Denys de Montfort
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Pierre Denys de Montfort, also spelt Pierre Dénys de Montfort, (1766–1820) was a French naturalist, in particular a malacologist, remembered today for his pioneering inquiries into the existence of the gigantic octopuses. He was inspired by a description from 1783 of an eight-metre long tentacle found in the mouth of a sperm whale. Montfort was author of Conchyliologie systématique, et classification méthodique de coquilles and of Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière des Mollusques publis
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French zoologist
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