''Duboscquella'' is a genus of dinoflagellates.
It was named in reference to
Octave Duboscq
Octave Joseph Duboscq (30 October 1868, Rouen – 18 February 1943, Nice) 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 cha ...
(1868–1943), who was a French zoologist, mycologist and
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 f ...
.
The genus was
circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle.
* Circum ...
by
Édouard (Pierre Léon) Chatton in Arch. Zool. Exp. Gen. Vol.59 on pages 322-325 in 1920.
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Dinoflagellate genera
Enigmatic eukaryote taxa
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