| Charles Atwood Kofoid | |
| Birth Date: | 11 October 1865 |
| Birth Place: | Granville, Illinois |
| Death Place: | Berkeley, California |
| Nationality: | American |
| Field: | Zoology |
| Alma Mater: | Harvard University |
| Known For: | Marine biology |
| Notable Students: | S. F. Light, Harold Kirby |
Charles Atwood Kofoid (11 October 1865 - 30 May 1947) was an American zoologist known for his collection and classification of many new species of marine protozoans which established marine biology on a systematic basis.
Kofoid also wrote a volume on the biological stations of Europe.[1]
In 1920, Kofoid and US zoologist Olive Swezy (1873-1968),[2] published Pavillardia (a genus of dinoflagellates) in Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool. pages 323-324. It was named in honour of Jules Pavillard.[3]
In 1921, Kofoid and Olive Swezy, wrote a book about unarmored dinoflagellates in La Jolla, California, in which they described a new genus called Torodinium (with Torodinium robustum and the type species Torodinium teredo).[4] They also published Gyrodinium, which is a genus of dinoflagellates belonging to the order Gymnodiniales in 'Memoirs of the University of California'. vol.5.[5]
In 1929, botanist Pavillard first described Kofoidinium, which is a genus of dinoflagellates belonging to the family Kofoidiniaceae.[6]
Kofoid was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1913,[7] the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1922,[8] and the American Philosophical Society in 1924.[9]