title: Pierre Fourmanoir
text: # Pierre Fourmanoir
  
  Pierre Fourmanoir (1924–2007) was a French ichthyologist working mainly in New Caledonia. He described many new species of fish including several sharks.
  
  ## Career
  
  He was the FAO Regional Fisheries Officer, in Madagascar.
  
  ## Taxon described by him
  
  * See Category:Taxa named by Pierre Fourmanoir
  
  ## Taxon named in his honor
  
  * The Doublespot perchlet, Plectranthias fourmanoiri J. E. Randall, 1980 is a species of fish in the family Serranidae occurring in the Indo-Pacific Ocean.
  