Léon Gaston Seurat

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Léon Gaston Seurat (1872–1949) was a French zoologist and parasitologist who studied animals in French Polynesia and North Africa.

Education and career:
- In 1899 he submitted his graduate thesis on entomophagous Hymenoptera to the faculty in Paris.
- From 1902 to 1905 he worked as a naturalist in the South Seas, especially in the Tuamotu and Gambier Islands.
- In May 1906 he began work as a préparateur of zoology in the laboratory Biologie appliquée aux colonies.
- Later he became a professor of zoology at the University of Algiers.

Eponyms:
- Several species and groups were named in his honor, including Acomys seurati (Seurat’s spiny mouse), Perinereis seurati (a polychaete), and Calcinus seurati (Seurat’s hermit crab).
- A fungal genus Seuratia and its family Seuratiaceae were named after him.

Selected works:
- Observations sur la Structure, la Faune et la Flore de l'Ile Marutea du Sud (1903)
- Observations sur l'évolution de l'huître perlière des Tuamotu et des Gambier (1904)
- Observations sur quelques îles orientales de l'Archipel Tuamotu (1904)
- Tahiti et les établissements français de l'Océanie (1906)
- Sur un nouvel Ophiostonum parasite du Gundi (1915)
- Sur deux nouveaux Spiroptères des carnivores (1915)
- Physaloptères des Mammifères du Nord-Africain (1917)
- Faune des eaux continentales de la Berbérie (1921)
- Exploration zoologique de l'Algérie de 1830 à 1930 (1930)
- Exploration zoologique des côtes de l'Algérie de 1724 à 1930 (1930)
- Exploration zoologique des côtes de l'Algérie orientale secteurs de Bône et de La Calle (1937)
- Faune des eaux continentales de la Tunisie (eaux superficielles) (1944)

Seurat’s work contributed to the understanding of life in colonial regions, and his name remains associated with several species and a fungal genus.