Louis-Joseph Alcide Railliet


Louis-Joseph Alcide Railliet was a French veterinarian and helminthologist.
Professor at the Veterinary School of Alfort, he is considered one of the founders of modern parasitology and wrote several books of veterinary parasitology. He chaired the Société zoologique de France in 1891. He was a member of the French Académie Nationale de Médecine, from 29 December 1896 to his death. He received the Legion of Honor.

Tributes

Railliet's name is honoured by several genera: Raillietia, Raillietina, Raillietascaris, Raillietnema and Raillietstrongylus, Raillietiella, and the Acari family Raillietiidae.


Numerous species were named after Railliet, such as
Amidostomum raillieti, Angiocaulus raillieti, Aspidodera raillieti, Conoweberia raillieti, Eucoleus raillieti, Haemostrongylus raillieti, Henryella raillieti, Onchocerca raillieti, Protostrongylus raillieti, Quasiamidostomum raillieti, and Thominx raillieti, Coccidium raillieti and Eimeria raillieti, Dibothriocephalus raillieti, Hilmylepis raillieti, Ichthyotoenia raillieti, Sparganum raillieti, and Synthetocaulus raillieti.


All these animals are parasites, named in honour of Railliet by other parasitologists.