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Name
  
Kikutaro Baba


Died
  
November 30, 2001, Japan

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Kikutaro Baba (馬場 菊太郎, Baba Kikutarō, 11 July 1905 Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan – 30 November 2001 Japan) was a Japanese malacologist. He was the leading researcher on sea slugs and bubble snails, opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in Japan.

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Biography

  • 1932–1941 Kyushu University
  • 1948–1949 Osaka Kyoiku University
  • 1976 – Order of the Rising Sun

    • Kikutaro Baba was married to Mrs. Sonoko Baba. He died of pneumonia in hospital in Japan on 30 November 2001.

    Species

    Species described by Kikutaro Baba include:

    Taxa named in honor of him

    Genera:

  • Babaina Odhner, 1968
  • Babakina Roller, 1973
  • Babiella Risso-Dominguez, 1964

    • Species:

  • Linguella babai Tchang-Si, 1934
  • Marionopsis babai Odhner, 1936
  • Elysia babai Pruvot-Fol, 1945
  • Okenia babai Hamatani, 1961
  • Tamanovalva babai Burn, 1965
  • Flabellina babai Schmekel, 1970
  • Cyerce kikutarobabai Hamatani, 1976
  • Chelidonura babai Gosliner, 1988
  • Phyllidia babai Brunckhorst 1993
  • Hypselodoris babai Gosliner & Behrens 2000
  • Philine babai Valdés, 2008

    • References

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