Octave Joseph Duboscq (30 October 1868, Rouen – 18 February 1943, Nice)[1] was a French zoologist, mycologist and parasitologist.
He obtained doctorates in medicine (1894) and sciences (1899) at the University of Caen.
At the same time, he was also named director of the Arago laboratory in Banyuls-sur-Mer, and in 1931 became manager of the biological station at Villefranche-sur-Mer.
[2] He was a member of the Belles-Lettres de Montpellier (1906–1923) and of the Académie des Sciences.
[2] With Louis-Urbain-Eugène Léger, he was the circumscriber of various mycological and protozoan taxa; examples being — the fungi genus Harpella and the parasitic protozoan genus Selenococcidium.