Malcolm Roy Clarke (24 October 1930 – 10 May 2013) was a British marine biologist. He is most well known for his extensive work on cephalopods and whales.Clarke, M.R. 1980. Cephalopods in the diet of sperm whales in the southern hemisphere and their bearing on sperm whale biology Discovery Reports 37: 1–324.Clarke, M.R. 1986. Editor. A handbook for the Identification of Cephalopod Beaks, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Career Clarke did his National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1948 to 1950.
He founded the Cephalopod International Advisory Council, serving for a time as its Secretary and President.
Awards and honours Clarke was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1981. The deep-sea anglerfish Oneirodes clarkei Swinney & Pietsch, 1988 was named in his honor.Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.c.html
Personal life Clarke married Dorothy Clara Knight in 1958 and had three sons and one daughter together.
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