Native name 山口 左仲 Nationality Japanese | Name Satyu Yamaguti Fields Parasitology | |
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Born 21 April 1894
Nagano Prefecture, Japan ( 1894-04-21 ) Institutions Kyoto University, Okayama University, University of Hawaii, Tulane University Died March 11, 1976, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan Books Systema Helminthum: The digenetic trematodes of vertebrates Institution Kyoto University, Okayama University, University of Hawaii, Tulane University | ||
Satyu Yamaguti (山口 左仲, Yamaguchi Sachū, 21 April 1894 – 11 March 1976) was a Japanese parasitologist, entomologist, and helminthologist. He was a specialist of mosquitoes, and helminths such as digeneans, monogeneans, cestodes, acanthocephalans and nematodes. He also worked on the parasitic crustaceans Copepoda and Branchiura. Satyu Yamaguti wrote more than 60 scientific papers and, more importantly, several huge monographs which are still in use by scientists all over the world and were cited over 1,000 times each.
Contents
- Education and career
- Awards and honours
- Important publications
- Eponymous taxa
- Zoological nomenclature
- Obituaries
- References
Education and career
Satyu Yamaguti was born in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, 21 April 1894.
He graduated from Okayama Medical College (1918), studied pathology at Tokyo University (1918-1925) and parasitology at the Institut für Tropenkrankheiten in Hamburg, Germany (1925-1926). He received his MD from Tokyo University in 1926 and was Dr. Sc. of Kyoto University in 1935. He was lecturer in parasitology in Kyoto University (1927-1943), parasitologist at the Naval Institute of Tropical Hygiene in Macassar (then "Celebes" – now Sulawesi, Indonesia) with the Japanese Navy (1943-1944), and special consultant of the Malaria Survey Detachment of the US Army (1946-1950). He became Professor of parasitology in Okayama University Medical School (1950), was a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii (1962-1966) and a Graduate Professor of Biology at Tulane University (1968-1969).
He died on 11 March 1976 in Kyoto, Japan.
Awards and honours
Important publications
Eponymous taxa
Numerous taxa were named in the honour of Satyu Yamaguti. Most are parasites. A few examples of genera are:
Many species were dedicated to Satyu Yamaguti and are named yamagutii (List in ION), or, more rarely, satyui (List in ION).
Zoological nomenclature
Satyu Yamaguti created what is probably the longest currently valid genus name of the zoological nomenclature, Lagenivaginopseudobenedenia Yamaguti, 1966. This is a monogenean of the family Capsalidae, parasite on the gills of deep-sea fish of the family Lutjanidae.