Basanta Kumar Das (ichthyologist)

Basanta Kumar Das (21 November 1899 – 6 April 1957) was an Indian fisheries zoologist.

He studied air-breathing fishes and served as a professor of zoology at the Osmania University and directed research on fisheries.

He studied at the government school in Allahabad before joining Muir Central College and receiving an MS in 1918.

He became a lecturer in Allahabad University in 1920 and received a UP State Scholarship to study abroad.

MacBride on studied air-breathing fishes[1][2] and received a DSc from the University of London in 1926.