Frank Fortescue Laidlaw

Frank Fortescue Laidlaw (1876–1963) was a British biologist who chiefly studied molluscs, a malacologist.

He named a number of species of snails, including:

• The land snail genus Colparion

Earlier in his career he studied dragonflies, the Odonata, identifying a number of new species, and being himself recorded in names such as Epiophlebia laidlawi Tillyard, 1921 and Burmagomphus laidlawi Fraser,1924.

Bibliography

• Laidlaw F. F. (1915) Contributions to a study of the dragonfly fauna of Borneo - Part III Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 25-39
• Laidlaw F. F. (1931) "On a new sub-family Dyakiinae of the Zonitidae". Proceedings of the malacological Society of London 19: 190-201. abstract.
• Laidlaw F. F. (1932). Proceedings of the malacological Society of London 20: 91, 92.
• Laidlaw F. F. (1934) A note on the dragonfly fauna of (Odonata) of Mount Kinabalu and some other mountain areas of Malaysia, with a description of some new or little known species. Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums 17(3), 549-561

References

• 2400 years of Malacology at: [1]

Further reading

• S. P. Dance, 1964. Obituary. Frank Fortescue Laidlaw, 1876-1963. Journal of Conchology 25(7): 288-291, pl. 19. HTM