Joseph Hugues Boissieu (de) La Martinière, also called Joseph La Martinière (1758, Saint-Marcellin, Isère - 1788, Vanikoro, Solomon Islands) was a French doctor of medicine and botanist and biologist.
His father Jean-Joseph Boissieu was a doctor of medicine attached to the faculty of the University of Montpellier who served a term as consul at Saint-Marcellin.
[1] In the course of the voyage La Martinière sent correspondence and interim reports back to France, one cache that was carried overland from Russian Asia in 1787, and another that was conveyed back from Australia by the British merchant ship ‘Alexander’ in 1788; the finds included newly discovered helminths, crustaceans and the first copepod identified in the Pacific Ocean.
His brother Pierre Joseph Didier de Boissieu (fr) (1754 - 1812) was a deputy to the National Convention who did not vote for the King's death.
Two French streets bear his name:: Two flowering plants in the genus Bossiaea commemorate his name in Latinised form: A fish parasite in the Capsalidae family carries his name: