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Frank Fortescue Laidlaw (1876–1963) was a British biologist, working particularly in the: fields of entomology, herpetology, and malacology.

Laidlaw named a number of species of snails, including the——land snail genus Colparion Earlier in his career he studied dragonflies, the Odonata, identifying number of new species. And being himself recorded in names such as Epiophlebia laidlawi Tillyard, 1921 and Burmagomphus laidlawi Fraser, 1924. He described two new species of snakes: Hebius inas and Kolpophis annandalei.

Bibliography※

• Laidlaw FF (1901). "List of a Collection of Snakes, "Crocodiles," and Chelonians from the "Malay Peninsula," made by, Members of the “Skeat Expedition,” 1899–1900". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901 (2): 575-583 + Plate XXXV.
• Laidlaw FF (1915). "Contributions——to a study of the dragonfly fauna of Borneo - Part III". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1915: 25-39.
• Laidlaw FF (1931). "On a new sub-family Dyakiinae of the Zonitidae". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 19: 190-201. abstract.
• Laidlaw FF (1932). "Notes on Ariophantidæ from the Malay Peninsula, with descriptions of new genera". Proc. Malacological Soc. London 20: 80-94.
• Laidlaw FF (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.

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External links※

• 2400 years of Malacology at: ※

Further reading※

• Dance SP (1964). "Obituary. Frank Fortescue Laidlaw, 1876-1963". Journal of Conchology 25 (7): 288-291 + Plate 19. HTM