was a Japanese

fisheries biologist Fisheries science is the academic discipline of managing and understanding fisheries. It is a multidisciplinary science, which draws on the disciplines of limnology, oceanography, freshwater biology, marine biology, meteorology, conservation, eco ...

and

cnidariologist A cnidariologist is a zoologist specializing in Cnidaria, a group of freshwater and marine aquatic animals that include the sea anemones, corals, and jellyfish. Examples * Edward Thomas Browne (1866-1937) * Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879-1967) * Rand ...

and a professor of the

Imperial University of Tokyo , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...

(Faculty of Agriculture) between 1908 and 1928. Kishinouye died in

Chengtu Chengdu (, ; simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), alternatively romanized as Chengtu, is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of the Chinese province ...

of a sudden illness while on a collecting expedition to China. Kishinouye recommended

Kumataro Ito Kumataro Ito ( ja, 伊藤熊太郎 Ito Kumataro; c. 1860 – c. 1930) was the illustrator on board the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries Steamer U.S.S. ''Albatross'' during the Philippine Expedition from 1907 to 1910. Ito was probably recommended to ...

to Hugh M. Smith as an artist on board the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries Steamer U.S.S. ''Albatross'' during the Philippine Expedition from 1907 to 1910.

Publications

* Contributions to the comparative study of the so-called scombroid fishes. (1923) Tokyo : Imperial University of Tokyo, - Journal of the College of Agriculture ; volume viii, no. 3 ii, p. 293-475 * Larval and juvenile tunas and skipjacks. (1919) * A Study of the Mackerels, Cybiids, and Tunas. (1915) Special Scientific Report - Fisheries, no. 24. * Prehistoric fishing in Japan. (1911) J. Coll. Agriculture, Imp. Univ. Tokyo, 2;328-382. * Some Medusae of Japanese Waters. (1910) * Some New Scyphomedusae of Japan. (1902) * Note on the Eyes of Cardium Muticum Reeve. (1894) * Note on the Coelomic Cavity of the Spider. (1894) * On the Development of Limulus Longispina. (1893) * On the Lasteral Eyes of the Spiders. (1893) * On the Development of Araneina. (1891)

Tributes

He gave his name to the

jellyfish Jellyfish and sea jellies are the informal common names given to the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, a major part of the phylum Cnidaria. Jellyfish are mainly free-swimming marine animals with umbrella- ...

genus ''

Kishinouyea ''Calvadosia'' is a genus of stalked jellyfish in the order Stauromedusae. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Kishinouyeidae. Taxonomy and systematics The family name is a tribute to Japanese cnidariologist Kamakichi Kishinouye. Mayer ...

'' Mayer, 1910, with a preoccupied name. ''Kishinouyea'' has been also used by Yoshio Ôuchi to describe a praying mantis genus that he quickly renamed ''

Kishinouyeum ''Phyllothelys'' is a genus of Asian praying mantids in the family Hymenopodidae Hymenopodidae is a family of the order Mantodea (mantises), which contains six subfamilies. Some of the species in this family mimic flowers and are found camo ...

'' in 1938, and that could be a junior synonym for ''

Phyllothelys ''Phyllothelys'' is a genus of Asian praying mantids in the family Hymenopodidae Hymenopodidae is a family of the order Mantodea (mantises), which contains six subfamilies. Some of the species in this family mimic flowers and are found camo ...

''.Taxonomy and synonymy of Phyllothelys Wood-Mason (Dictyoptera: Mantodea). Reinhard Ehrmann and Roger Roy, Ann. soc. entomol. Fr. (n.s.), 2009, 45 (1) : 67-76
/ref> ''Kishinoella'' (with species ''Kishinoella rara'' (Kishinouye, 1915) and ''Kishinoella tonggol'' (Bleeker, 1851)) is a synonym genus name to describe ''

Thunnus tonggol ''Thunnus tonggol'' is a species of tuna of tropical Indo-West Pacific waters. It is commonly known as the longtail tuna or northern bluefin tuna.Hutchins, B. & Swainston, R. (1986). ''Sea Fishes of Southern Australia.'' pp. 104 & 141. Allen, G. ...

'' (Bleeker, 1851) (accepted name). The epithet ''

kishinouyei Kishinouyei is a New Latin adjective referring to Japanese marine biologist Kamakichi Kishinouye was a Japanese fisheries biologist and cnidariologist and a professor of the Imperial University of Tokyo (Faculty of Agriculture) between 1908 an ...

'' is used to refer to Kamakichi Kishinouye in species names. The American

ichthyologist Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish ( Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of Octobe ...

John Otterbein Snyder John Otterbein Snyder (August 14, 1867 – August 19, 1943) was an American ichthyologist and professor of zoology at Stanford University. History As a student he met David Starr Jordan who inspired him to enter zoology. He eventually became a zoo ...

honoured him in the name of the gurnard ''

Lepidotrigla kishinouyi ''Lepidotrigla kishinouyi'', the devil sea robin, is a species of marine, demersal ray-finned fish from the family Triglidae, the gurnards and sea robins. It is found in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy ''Lepidotrigla kishinouyi'' was fi ...

'', although he left the e out for phonetic reasons.

References

External links

Picture of Kamakichi Kishinouye on www.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Japanese ichthyologists Japanese marine biologists Cnidariologists 1867 births 1929 deaths 20th-century Japanese zoologists People from Tōkai, Aichi 19th-century zoologists {{Japan-scientist-stub

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