About Lancelot Alexander Borradaile
Lived 1872 – 1945 (aged 73). Lancelot Alexander Borradaile was a British zoologist and carcinologist.
Lancelot Alexander Borradaile (26 September 1872 – 20 October 1945) was an English zoologist, noted for his work on crustaceans and his books The Invertebrata and Manual of Elementary Zoology.
Biography He was born on 26 September 1872 to a "merchant in the African trade".
In addition to these generalist works, Borradaile also worked as a carcinologist. He published an important monograph On the Pontoniinae in 1917, based on material collected by the 1905 Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean, led by John Stanley Gardiner. He worked extensively on crabs and similar animals, and coined the term "carcinisation" to describe "one of the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab". He is commemorated in the scientific names Metapenaeopsis borradaili, Athanas borradailei, Corallianassa borradailei, Accalathura borradailei and Petrolisthes borradailei.
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English zoologist
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Lancelot Alexander Borradaile was born on 26 September 1872.
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Lancelot Alexander Borradaile died on 20 October 1945.
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Lancelot Alexander Borradaile was a zoologist and carcinologist.
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Lancelot Alexander Borradaile was British.
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