{{Short description|French zoologist, mycologist and parasitologist}} '''Octave Joseph Duboscq''' (30 October 1868, Rouen – 18 February 1943, Nice)<ref>Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Duboscq (Octave, Joseph, René) », in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p. ({{ISBN|9782908866506}})</ref> 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.<ref name=NI>[http://www.collections.univ-montp2.fr/component/collector/item/6-grands-noms/15536-duboscq-octave-1868-1943?Itemid=0 Pôle Patrimoine scientifique de l'Université Montpellier 2] (biography)</ref>

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''.<ref name=NI/>

With Louis-Urbain-Eugène Léger, he was the circumscriber of various mycological and protozoan taxa; examples being &mdash; the fungi genus ''Harpella'' and the parasitic protozoan genus ''Selenococcidium''.<ref>[https://www.gbif.org/species/2557918 GBIF] Harpella L. Léger & Duboscq, 1929.</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books/about/Selenococcidium_Intermedium_S%C3%A9g_Et_Dub.html?id=FN3tMgEACAAJ Google Books] Selenococcidium Intermedium</ref>

He was honoured in 1920 in the naming of ''Duboscquella'', which is a genus of dinoflagellates.<ref>{{Cite journal| last1 = Harada | first1 = A.| last2 = Ohtsuka | first2 = S. | last3 = Horiguchi | first3 = T.| title = Species of the parasitic genus Duboscquella are members of the enigmatic Marine Alveolate Group I| journal = Protist| volume = 158| issue = 3| pages = 337–347| year = 2007| pmid = 17560828| doi = 10.1016/j.protis.2007.03.005| hdl = 2115/30140| hdl-access = free}}</ref>

== Selected works == * ''La glande venimeuse de la scolopendre'', 1894 – The venomous gland of Scolopendra. * ''Recherches sur les chilopodes'', 1899 – Research on chilopods. * ''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.<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ADuboscq%2C+Octave.&qt=hot_author WorldCat Search] publications</ref>

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