was a Japanese

herpetologist Herpetology (from Greek ἑρπετόν ''herpetón'', meaning "reptile" or "creeping animal") is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (gymnophiona)) and rept ...

and

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 ...

. He received his Master's from

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. He is noted for studies of the fish species of Taiwan and on snakes.

Taxon described by him

*See :Taxa named by Masamitsu Ōshima *'' Squalidus iijimae'' Named in honor of zoologist Isao lijima. *'' Pungtungia shiraii'' Named in honor of Kunihiko Shirai. *''

Aphyocypris kikuchii ''Aphyocypris kikuchii'' is a species of cyprinid fish. It is endemic to Taiwan. It is a benthopelagic freshwater fish that grows to total length Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies. These ...

'' Named in honor of Yonetaro Kikuchi (1869–1921), collector for the Taipei Museum in Formosa (Taiwan), who collected the type specimen. *''

Barbodes snyderi ''Barbodes snyderi'' (common name: Snyder's barb ) is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwe ...

'' Snyder's barb. *''

Oncorhynchus masou formosanus ''Oncorhynchus masou formosanus'', the Formosan landlocked salmon or Taiwanese salmon, is a freshwater salmonid fish endemic to Taiwan. The Formosan landlocked salmon is a subspecies of the more widespread West-Pacific cherry salmon (or masu ...

'' *''

Spinibarbus hollandi ''Spinibarbus hollandi'' is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Taiwan. It grows to length. Named in honor of zoologist-paleontologist William J. Holland (1848-1932), Director of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Carnegie Museums of Pitt ...

'' Named in honor of zoologist-paleontologist William J. Holland.

Partial bibliography

*A Review of the Fishes of the Family Mugilidæ Found in the Waters of Formosa *A Review of the Fishes of the Family Centriscidæ Found in the Waters of Formosa *Notes on the Venomous Snakes from the Islands of Formosa and Riu Kiu *A cyclopedia of applied zoology *魚 (Fishes, in Japanese), Tokyo 1940

References

1884 births 1965 deaths Japanese herpetologists Japanese ichthyologists People from Sapporo 20th-century Japanese zoologists {{zoologist-stub