Louis-Joseph Alcide Railliet (also known as Alcide Railliet, born 11 March 1852 at La Neuville-lès-Wasigny in the Ardennes – died 25 December 1930) was a French veterinarian and

helminthologist Helminthology is the study of parasitic worms (helminths). The field studies the Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy of helminths and their effects on their host (biology), hosts. The origin of the first compound of the word is the Greek ''wikt:ἕλ� ...

. Professor at the Veterinary School of Alfort, he is considered one of the founders of modern

parasitology Parasitology is the study of parasites, their hosts, and the relationship between them. As a biological discipline, the scope of parasitology is not determined by the organism or environment in question but by their way of life. This means it fo ...

and wrote several books of veterinary parasitology. He chaired the

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in 1891. He was a member of the French

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, from 29 December 1896 to his death. He received the

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Tributes

Railliet's name is honoured by 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 ...

: '' Raillietia'' (

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 ...

), '' Raillietina'' ( Cestodes), '' Raillietascaris'', '' Raillietnema'' and '' Raillietstrongylus'' (

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), '' Raillietiella'' (

Pentastomida The Pentastomida are an enigmatic group of parasitic arthropods commonly known as tongue worms due to the resemblance of the species of the genus ''Linguatula'' to a vertebrate tongue; molecular studies point to them being degenerate crustaceans ...

), and the

family Raillietiidae.
Numerous

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 ...

were named after Railliet, such as ''Amidostomum raillieti, Angiocaulus raillieti, Aspidodera raillieti, Conoweberia raillieti, Eucoleus raillieti, Haemostrongylus raillieti, Henryella raillieti, Onchocerca raillieti, Protostrongylus raillieti, Quasiamidostomum raillieti'', and ''Thominx raillieti'' (

s), ''Coccidium raillieti'' and ''Eimeria raillieti'' (

Coccidia Coccidia (Coccidiasina) are a subclass of microscopic, spore-forming, single-celled obligate intracellular parasites belonging to the apicomplexan class Conoidasida. As obligate intracellular parasites, they must live and reproduce within an a ...

), ''Dibothriocephalus raillieti, Hilmylepis raillieti, Ichthyotoenia raillieti, Sparganum raillieti'', and ''Synthetocaulus raillieti'' ( Cestodes).
All these animals are parasites, named in honour of Railliet by other

parasitologist Parasitology is the study of parasites, their hosts, and the relationship between them. As a biological discipline, the scope of parasitology is not determined by the organism or environment in question but by their way of life. This means it ...

s (the list of species may include synonyms).

Bibliography

* ''Éléments de zoologie médicale et agricole'', Asselin et Houzeau, Paris, 188
Complete text in Gallica
* ''Notices helminthologiques'', impr. de Vve Renou et Maulde, Paris, 1885. * ''Parasites animaux : Les Parasites transmissibles des animaux à l'homme, envisagés spécialement au point de vue de la prophylaxie'', A. Maulde, Paris, 189
Complete text in Gallica
* "Une nouvelle affection parasitaire du lièvre et du lapin de garenne", in ''Revue des sciences naturelles appliquées'', n˚8, 20 avril 1890. * "Les Parasites de nos animaux domestiques", in ''Revue des sciences naturelles appliquées'', n˚16, 20 août 1890. * Avec Léon Moulé, ''Histoire de l'École d'Alfort'', Paris, Asselin et Houzeau,1908.Interuniversity Library of Medicine and Dentistry
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* ttp://www.organismnames.com/query.htm?q=Railletina&Submit.x=0&Submit.y=0&searchType=simple&so=a0 ION Genus ''Raillietina''
ION Genus ''Raillietascaris''
French parasitologists French zoologists Recipients of the Legion of Honour 1852 births 1930 deaths {{France-zoologist-stub