French zoologist, mycologist and parasitologist
Octave Joseph Duboscq (30 October 1868, Rouen – 18 February 1943, Nice) was a French zoologist, mycologist and parasitologist.
He obtained doctorates in medicine (1894) and sciences (1899) at the University of Caen. From 1904 to 1923, he was chair of zoology at the University of Montpellier, afterwards attaining the chair of marine biology at the Sorbonne. At the same time, he was also named director of the Arago laboratory in Banyuls-sur-Mer, and in 1931 became manager of the biological station at Villefranche-sur-Mer.
He was a member of the "Belles-Lettres de Montpellier" (1906–1923) and of the "Académie des Sciences". In 1912 he was named chevalier of the "Légion d'Honneur".
With Louis-Urbain-Eugène Léger, he was the circumscriber of various mycological and protozoan taxa; examples being — the fungi genus "Harpella" and the parasitic protozoan genus "Selenococcidium".
He was honoured in 1920 in the naming of "Duboscquella", which is a genus of dinoflagellates.
Selected works.
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