was a Japanese
fisheries biologist 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)
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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 provi ...
of a sudden illness while on a collecting expedition to China.
Kishinouye recommended
Kumataro Ito 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 umbre ...
genus ''
Kishinouyea'' 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'' in 1938, and that could be a junior synonym for ''
Phyllothelys''.
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
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''Kishinoella'' (with species ''Kishinoella rara'' (Kishinouye, 1915) and ''Kishinoella tonggol'' (Bleeker, 1851)) is a synonym genus name to describe '' Thunnus tonggol'' (Bleeker, 1851) (accepted name).
The epithet '' kishinouyei'' 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 O ...
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'', although he left the e out for phonetic reasons.
See also
* :Taxa named by Kamakichi Kishinouye
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
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