Charles Atwood Kofoid

Charles Atwood Kofoid (11 October 1865 – 30 May 1947) was an American zoologist known for his collection and classification of many new species of marine protozoans which established marine biology on a systematic basis.

Charles Atwood Kofoid
Born(1865-10-11)October 11, 1865
Granville, Illinois
DiedMay 30, 1947(1947-05-30) (aged 81)
Berkeley, California
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
Known forMarine biology
Scientific career
FieldsZoology

Kofoid also wrote a volume on the biological stations of Europe.[1]

In 1920, Kofoid and US zoologist Olive Swezy (1873-1968),[2] published Pavillardia Kof. & Swezy 1920 (a genus of dinoflagellates) in Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool. pages 323-324. It was named in honour of Jules Pavillard.[3]

In 1921, Kofoid and Olive Swezy, wrote a book about unarmored dinoflagellates in La Jolla, California, in which they described a new genus called Torodinium (with Torodinium robustum and the type species Torodinium teredo).[4] They also published Gyrodinium, which is a genus of dinoflagellates belonging to the order Gymnodiniales in 'Memoirs of the University of California'. vol.5.[5]

In 1929, botanist Pavillard first described Kofoidinium, which is a genus of dinoflagellates belonging to the family Kofoidiniaceae.[6]

Kofoid was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1913,[7] the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1922,[8] and the American Philosophical Society in 1924.[9]

References
  1. Kofoid, C. A. (1910). The Biological Stations of Europe. US Bureau of Education.
  2. "Olive Swezy, US zoologist - Stock Image - C037/2025". Science Photo Library. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  3. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  4. Kofoid, C.A. and Swezy, O. 1921: The free-living unarmored dinoflagellate. University of California Press, Berkeley, California, USA
  5. "Gyrodinium Kofoid & Swezy, 1921". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  6. "Kofoidinium Pavillard, 1929 :: Algaebase". www.algaebase.org. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  7. "Charles Atwood Kofoid". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
  8. "Charles A. Kofoid". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
  9. "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-08-22.

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