John Cranch (1785–1816) was an English naturalist and explorer.
[1] John Cranch - 'Jack' to his friends[2] - took part in an expedition in 1816 under Captain James Hingston Tuckey to discover the source of the River Congo, and died there.
[3] His friend William Elford Leach named nineteen new species and one new genus after him in his description of the expedition.
[3] These include for example the marine isopod crustacean Cirolana cranchi which he named in 1818.
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