Alain Chabaud (13 March 1923 – 11 March 2013) was a French parasitologist, mainly a specialist of

nematode The nematodes ( or grc-gre, Νηματώδη; la, Nematoda) or roundworms constitute the phylum Nematoda (also called Nemathelminthes), with plant-Parasitism, parasitic nematodes also known as eelworms. They are a diverse animal phylum inhab ...

s and

sporozoa The Apicomplexa (also called Apicomplexia) are a large phylum of parasitic alveolates. Most of them possess a unique form of organelle that comprises a type of non-photosynthetic plastid called an apicoplast, and an apical complex structure. The ...

. He was the Director of the Laboratoire de Zoologie (Vers) in the

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the ' (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a ' of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities. The main museum, with four galleries, is loc ...

in Paris from 1960 to 1989. He was one of the founders of the

Société Française de Parasitologie La Société Française de Parasitologie ( en, "French Society of Parasitology"), often abridged as SFP, was founded in 1962 and is a scientific society devoted to parasitology. It publishes the scientific journal Parasite and organizes prizes a ...

in 1962 and its president until 1975, and president of the

Société zoologique de France La Société zoologique de France ( en, "Zoological Society of France"), founded in 1876 by Aimé Bouvier, is a scientific society devoted to Zoology. It publishes a bulletin and organises the Prix Gadeau de Kerville de la Société zoologique d ...

in 1967.

Taxa named in his honour

Chabaud's name is honoured in many

parasite Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has ...

taxa In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; plural taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular nam ...

described by his colleagues. The most famous

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

named in the honour of Chabaud is ''

Plasmodium chabaudi ''Plasmodium chabaudi'' is a parasite of the genus ''Plasmodium'' subgenus ''Vinckeia''. As in all ''Plasmodium'' species, ''P. chabaudi'' has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are rodents. Taxonomy This ...

Landau Landau ( pfl, Landach), officially Landau in der Pfalz, is an autonomous (''kreisfrei'') town surrounded by the Südliche Weinstraße ("Southern Wine Route") district of southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a university town (since 1990 ...

, 1965, a species studied in many laboratories. Several

genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...

Nematoda The nematodes ( or grc-gre, Νηματώδη; la, Nematoda) or roundworms constitute the phylum Nematoda (also called Nemathelminthes), with plant-parasitic nematodes also known as eelworms. They are a diverse animal phylum inhabiting a broa ...

were named in the honour of Chabaud, including '' Chabaudacuaria'' Mutafchiev & Kinsella, 2012, '' Chabaudechina'' Smales, 1999, '' Chabaudgolvania'' Freitas, 1958 (also honouring French parasitologist Jean-Yves Golvan). '' Chabaudus chabaudi'' Inglis & Ogden, 1965 has both genus and species names honouring Chabaud. Many

were named in the honour of Chabaud and include: ''Africana chabaudi'' Baker, 1981, ''Angiostrongylus chabaudi'' Biocca, 1957, ''Aonchotheca chabaudi'' ( Justine, 1989) Pisanu & Bain, 1999, ''Aspiculuris (Paraspiculuris) chabaudi'' Gupta & Trivedi, 1986, ''Atractis chabaudi'' Petter, 1966, ''Brygoonema chabaudi'' (Schmidt 1965), ''Cardiofilaria chabaudi'' Dissanaike & Fernando, 1965, ''Cephaluris chabaudi'' Inglis, 1959, ''Chromaspirina chabaudi'' Boucher, 1975, ''Cooperia chabaudi'' Diaouré, 1964, ''Cucullanus chabaudi'' Le-Van-Hoa & Pham-Ngoc-Khue, 1967, ''Cyathospirura chabaudi'' Gupta & Pande, 1981, ''Cyrnea (Procyrnea) chabaudi'' Rasheed, 1965, ''Dioctowittus chabaudi'' Bain & Ghadirian, 1967, ''Dujardinascaris chabaudi'' Diaz-Ungria and Gallardo, 1968, ''Enterobius chabaudi'' Kalia & Gupta, 1982, ''Falcaustra chabaudi'' Dyer, 1973, ''Gendrespirura chabaudi'' Le Van Hoa, 1962, ''Geopetitia chabaudi'' Rasheed, 1960, ''Gyrinicola chabaudi'' Araujo & de Toledo Artigas, 1983, ''Habronema chabaudi'' Ali, 1961, ''Hassalstrongylus chabaudi'' Diaw, 1976, ''Heligmonina chabaudi'' Desset, 1964, ''Longistriata chabaudi'' Desset, 1964, ''Maxvachonia chabaudi'' Mawson, 1972, ''Metacyatholaimus chabaudi'' Gourbault, 1980, ''Metathelazia chabaudi'' Singh & Pande, 1966, ''Molineus chabaudi'' Schmidt, 1965, ''Nematodirus chabaudi'' Rossi, 1983, ''Oswaldocruzia chabaudi'' Ben Slimane & Durette-Desset, 1996, ''Oswaldofilaria chabaudi'' Pereira, Souza Lima & Bain, 2010, ''Oxyspirura (Oxyspirura) chabaudi'' Baruš, 1965, ''Paraheligmonina chabaudi'' Kouyaté, 1981, ''Pelecitus chabaudi'' Bartlett & Greiner, 1986, ''Pelodera chabaudi'' Crusz & Santiapillai 1982, ''Protospirura chabaudi'' Vuylsteke, 1964, ''Psyllotylenchus chabaudi'' Deunff & Launay, 1984, ''Rhabdochona chabaudi'' Mawson, 1956, ''Schneidernema chabaudi'' Quentin, 1966, ''Sciadiocara chabaudi'' Schmidt & Kinsella, 1972, ''Sphaerocephalum chabaudi'' Inglis, 1962, ''Spirocamallanus chabaudi'' Gupta & Garg, 1986, ''Stewartia chabaudi'' Rao, 1989, ''Tachygonetria chabaudi'' Hering-Hagenbeck, 2001, ''Vexillata chabaudi'' Yoyette Vado, 1972, and ''Vogeloides chabaudi'' (Singh & Pande 1956). In addition, species from other

phyla Phyla, the plural of ''phylum'', may refer to: * Phylum, a biological taxon between Kingdom and Class * by analogy, in linguistics, a large division of possibly related languages, or a major language family which is not subordinate to another Phyl ...

include

Acanthocephala Acanthocephala (Greek , ', thorn + , ', head) is a phylum of parasitic worms known as acanthocephalans, thorny-headed worms, or spiny-headed worms, characterized by the presence of an eversible proboscis, armed with spines, which it uses to p ...

such as ''Breizacanthus chabaudi'' Golvan, 1969 and ''Centrorhynchus chabaudi'' Golvan, 1958;

Digenea Digenea (Gr. ''Dis'' – double, ''Genos'' – race) is a class of trematodes in the Platyhelminthes phylum, consisting of parasitic flatworms (known as ''flukes'') with a syncytial tegument and, usually, two suckers, one ventral and one oral. ...

such as ''Carmyerius chabaudi'' van Strydonck, 1970, ''Clinostomum chabaudi'' Vercammen-Grandjean, 1960, ''Microphallus chabaudi'' Capron, Deblock & Biguet, 1958, ''Neoapocreadium chabaudi'' Kohn & Fernandes, 1982, ''Opisthorchis chabaudi'' Bourgat & Kulo, 1977, ''Pseudosonsinotrema chabaudi'' (Caballero & Caballero, 1969) Sullivan, 1974;

Cestoda Cestoda is a class of parasitic worms in the flatworm phylum (Platyhelminthes). Most of the species—and the best-known—are those in the subclass Eucestoda; they are ribbon-like worms as adults, known as tapeworms. Their bodies consist of man ...

such as ''Catenotaenia chabaudi'' Dollfus, 1953, ''Hemicatenotaenia chabaudi'' ( Dollfus, 1953) and ''Oochoristica chabaudi'' Dollfus, 1954;

Monogenea Monogeneans are a group of ectoparasitic flatworms commonly found on the skin, gills, or fins of fish. They have a direct lifecycle and do not require an intermediate host. Adults are hermaphrodites, meaning they have both male and female reprod ...

such as ''Diplectanum chabaudi'' Oliver, 1980 and ''Ligophorus chabaudi''

Euzet Euzet (; oc, Euset) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France. Population See also *Communes of the Gard department This is a list of the 351 Communes of France, communes of the Gard Departments of France, department of France. ...

& Suriano, 1977;

Oligochaeta Oligochaeta () is a subclass of animals in the phylum Annelida, which is made up of many types of aquatic and terrestrial worms, including all of the various earthworms. Specifically, oligochaetes comprise the terrestrial megadrile earthworm ...

such as ''Acanthodrilus chabaudi'' Jamieson & Bennett, 1979;

Acari Mites are small arachnids (eight-legged arthropods). Mites span two large orders of arachnids, the Acariformes and the Parasitiformes, which were historically grouped together in the subclass Acari, but genetic analysis does not show clear evid ...

such as ''Amblyomma chabaudi'' Rageau, 1965, ''Brephosceles chabaudi'' Gaud, 1968 and ''Orthohalarachne chabaudi'' Gretillat, 1960;

Fleas Flea, the common name for the order Siphonaptera, includes 2,500 species of small flightless insects that live as external parasites of mammals and birds. Fleas live by ingesting the blood of their hosts. Adult fleas grow to about long, ar ...

such as ''Ctenocephalides chabaudi'' Beaucournu & Bain, 1982; Phlebotomes such as ''Phlebotomus (Paraphlebotomus) chabaudi'' Croset, Abonnenc & Rioux; Parasitic

Protozoa Protozoa (singular: protozoan or protozoon; alternative plural: protozoans) are a group of single-celled eukaryotes, either free-living or parasitic, that feed on organic matter such as other microorganisms or organic tissues and debris. Histo ...

such as ''Hepatozoon chabaudi'' Brygoo, 1963, the Trypanosome ''Trypanosoma chabaudi'' Chandenier, Landau & Baccam, 1988, ''Nyctotheroides chabaudi'' Albaret, 1972 and the

Gregarine The gregarines are a group of Apicomplexan alveolates, classified as the Gregarinasina or Gregarinia. The large (roughly half a millimeter) parasites inhabit the intestines of many invertebrates. They are not found in any vertebrates. However, gr ...

''Sphaerorhynchus chabaudi'' Tuzet & Theodorides, 1951. A species of snake, '' Liophidium chabaudi'' Domergue, 1984, was also named in honour of Chabaud. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Chabaud", p. 51).

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