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Shintarō Hirase

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malacology

Parents
  
Yoichirō Hirase

Died
  
1939, Tokyo, Japan

Field
  
Malacology

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Born
  
February 28, 1884Awaji Island, Japan (
1884-02-28
)

Shintarō Hirase (平瀬 信太郎, Hirase Shintarō, February 28, 1884 – September 9, 1939) was a Japanese malacologist. His father, Yoichirō Hirase, (1859–1925) was also a malacologist.

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Shintarō Hirase was a teaching zoologist at Seikei College.

Collection

From the collection of Shintarō Hirase and much more valuable collection by his father Yoichirō Hirase have survived only about 30% with about 5000 specimen. Majority of the collection was destroyed by incendiary bombs in the house of Shintarō Hirase and in the Research Institute for Natural Resources in Tokyo during bombing of Tokyo. The collection have been stored in the Research Institute for Natural Resources in Tokyo in 1948.

Taxa described

  • Aglaja iwasai Hirase, 1936 was synonymized with Philinopsis cyanea (Martens, 1879) by William B. Rudman in 1972.
  • Babylonia pallida Hirase, 1934 is a synonym of Babylonia kirana Habe, 1965
  • Berthella gotoi Hirase, 1936
  • Oscanius testudinarius Hirase 1927
  • Ostrea circumpicta Hirase, 1930 is a synonym of Crassostrea nippona (Seki, 1934)
  • Xenophora tenuis Hirase, 1934 is a synonym of Xenophora tenuis Fulton, 1983

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