{{Short description|New Zealand marine biologist}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=December 2024}} {{Infobox person/Wikidata | fetchwikidata=ALL}}
'''Colin L. McLay''' (1942 – 3 December 2022) was a New Zealand marine biologist and carcinologist. Educated at the University of Otago and the University of British Columbia, he served as an Associate Professor of Marine Biology at the University of Canterbury.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biol.canterbury.ac.nz/people/mclay.shtml|title=Assoc. Prof. Colin McLay – People – Biological Sciences|publisher=University of Canterbury|accessdate=8 December 2013}}</ref> He discovered several species of crab, including ''Desmodromia tranterae'',<ref>{{cite book|last=Komatsu|title=Studies on Eumalacostraca: a homage to Masatsune Takeda|publisher=Brill Publishers|date=2012|pages=183|isbn = 978-9004202894|display-authors=etal}}</ref> ''Euryxanthops chiltoni'',<ref>{{cite journal|last=McLay|first=Colin|last2=Ng|first2=Peter|date=2007|title=Two new species of deep-water xanthid crabs of the genera Euryxanthops Garth & Kim, 1983, and Medaeops Guinot, 1967 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae) from New Zealand|journal=Zootaxa|publisher=Magnolia Press|issue=1385|issn= 1175-5334 |oclc= 49030618}}</ref> ''Gandalfus puia,''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=McLay |first=Colin L. |date=2007-07-09 |title=New crabs from hydrothermal vents of the Kermadec Ridge submarine volcanoes, New Zealand: Gandalfus gen. nov. (Bythograeidae) and Xenograpsus (Varunidae) (Decapoda: Brachyura) |url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63247460 |journal=Zootaxa |language=English |volume=1524 |issue=1 |pages=1–22 |doi=10.11646/ZOOTAXA.1524.1.1}}</ref> and ''Hirsutodynomene vespertilio''.<ref>{{cite journal|last=McLay|first=Colin|last2=Ng|first2=Peter|date=2005|title=On a collection of Dromiidae and Dynomenidae from the Philippines, with description of a new species of Hirsutodynomene|journal=Zootaxa|publisher=Magnolia Press|issue=1029|issn=1175-5334|oclc=49030618}}</ref>
He died on 3 December 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Colin MCLAY Obituary (2022) – Christchurch, Canterbury – The Press |url=https://deaths.press.co.nz/nz/obituaries/the-press-nz/name/colin-mclay-obituary?id=39733035 |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=Legacy.com}}</ref>
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