Octave Joseph Duboscq (30 October 1868,

Rouen Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of ...

– 18 February 1943,

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) was a French

zoologist Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the Animal, animal kingdom, including the anatomy, structure, embryology, evolution, Biological clas ...

mycologist Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungus, fungi, including their genetics, genetic and biochemistry, biochemical properties, their Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy and ethnomycology, their use to humans, including as a so ...

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 Villefranche-sur-Mer (, ; oc, Vilafranca de Mar ; it, Villafranca Marittima ) is a resort town in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region on the French Riviera and is located south-west of the Principality of ...

.Pôle Patrimoine scientifique de l'Université Montpellier 2
(biography) He was a member of the ''Belles-Lettres de Montpellier'' (1906–1923) and of the ''

Académie des Sciences The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. It was at the ...

''. In 1912 he was named chevalier of the ''

Légion d'Honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...

''. With Louis-Urbain-Eugène Léger, he was the circumscriber of various

mycological Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy and their use to humans, including as a source for tinder, traditional medicine, food, and entheogens, as w ...

and

protozoan 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 ...

taxa; examples being — the fungi genus '' Harpella'' and the parasitic protozoan genus ''

Selenococcidium ''Selenococcidium'' is a genus of parasitic alveolates in the phylum Apicomplexa. There is one recognised species in this genus – ''Selenococcidium intermedium''. This species infects the intestinal tract of European lobsters (''Homarus gammar ...

''. He was honoured in 1920 in the naming of '' Duboscquella'', which is a genus of

dinoflagellates The dinoflagellates (Greek δῖνος ''dinos'' "whirling" and Latin ''flagellum'' "whip, scourge") are a monophyletic group of single-celled eukaryotes constituting the phylum Dinoflagellata and are usually considered algae. Dinoflagellates are ...

Selected works

* ''La glande venimeuse de la scolopendre'', 1894 – The venomous gland of

Scolopendra ''Scolopendra'' (through Latin from Greek , ''skolopendra'') is a species-rich genus of large tropical centipedes of the family Scolopendridae. Description The genus ''Scolopendra'' contains many species of centipedes found across the world' ...

. * ''Recherches sur les chilopodes'', 1899 – Research on

chilopods Centipedes (from New Latin , "hundred", and Latin , " foot") are predatory arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda (Ancient Greek , ''kheilos'', lip, and New Latin suffix , "foot", describing the forcipules) of the subphylum Myriapoda, an ...

. * ''Titres et travaux scientifiques'', 1904 – Scientific works. * ''Études sur la sexualité chez les grégarines'', 1909 (with Louis Jules Léger) – Studies on the sexuality of gregarines.WorldCat Search
publications

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Duboscq, Octave 1868 births 1943 deaths Scientists from Rouen University of Paris faculty University of Montpellier faculty University of Caen Normandy alumni French zoologists French parasitologists French marine biologists French mycologists