Louis-Joseph Alcide Railliet

Louis-Joseph Alcide Railliet
Born (1852-03-11)March 11, 1852
La Neuville-lès-Wasigny, France
Died December 25, 1930(1930-12-25) (aged 78)
Saint-Germain-sur-Morin, France
Residence France
Citizenship French
Known for Veterinary Parasitology Helminthology
Author abbrev. (zoology) Railliet

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

Professor at the Veterinary School of Alfort, he is considered one of the founders of modern parasitology and wrote several books of veterinary parasitology. He chaired the Société zoologique de France in 1891. He was a member of the French Académie Nationale de Médecine, from 29 December 1896 to his death.[1] He received the Legion of Honor.

Tributes

Railliet's name is honoured by several genera: Raillietia (Acari), Raillietina (Cestodes), Raillietascaris, Raillietnema and Raillietstrongylus (Nematodes), Raillietiella (Pentastomida), and the Acari family Raillietiidae.
Numerous species 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 (Nematodes), Coccidium raillieti and Eimeria raillieti (Coccidia), Dibothriocephalus raillieti, Hilmylepis raillieti, Ichthyotoenia raillieti, Sparganum raillieti, and Synthetocaulus raillieti (Cestodes).
All these animals are parasites, named in honour of Railliet by other parasitologists (the list of species may include synonyms).

Bibliography

Eucoleus aerophilus, a nematode of the family Capillariidae,[2] which was created by Railliet in 1915

Notes and references

  1. RAILLIET, Alcide Louis Joseph, Official website of the National Academy of Medicine (French)
  2. Railliet, A. 1915: L'emploi des médicaments dans le traitement des maladies causées par des Nématodes. Recueil de Médecine Vétérinaire, Paris, 91, 490–513.
  3. Interuniversity Library of Medicine and Dentistry

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